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In the world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
It's the David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it is Friday, the 25th of July, year of our Lord 2025.
And Trump has signed three executive orders related to AI.
Of course, MAGA hated when Obama or Biden ruled by executive order, but Trump gets a pass.
Also going to talk about Candace Owens getting sued by the Macrones over the fact she keeps saying that Bridget Macron is a man.
And of course, today, get it excited.
We have over an hour of new David Knight for you.
In the third hour, I'm going to be speaking to Gerald Salente.
Stay with us.
Well, good morning and happy Friday to you all.
I hope you've got some good weekend plans.
Gonna do something with your family and have a little fun.
As I said, we're going to look at Candace Owens getting sued over her insistence on calling Bridget Macron a man.
But the most exciting thing today is that we have over an hour of new David Knight.
That's right.
He recorded this last night.
And we're very eager to play it for you.
This is from Time.
Candace Owen says she won't shut up after defamation lawsuit.
And she says Bridget McCrone is definitely a man.
The life of Candace Owen, it works like this, said the popular right-wing commentator on her podcast Wednesday.
I wake up, I stretch, I have a cup of coffee, and then I'm served with a lawsuit.
Now, I don't personally believe Bridget McCrone is a man.
I think this is some kind of tactic to drum up controversy and get spotlight on Candace Owens.
I think it's a little bit ridiculous to say this.
I haven't looked directly into the facts, but I don't think there's anything really to this from what I've heard.
It sounds a bit too fantastical.
There's also the fact that for many years, people have been saying Bridget Macron groomed young Macron, and they never did anything about it.
They didn't sue over it.
And I assume it's because they don't want to bring any spotlight to that claim.
They don't want to have people look at it and say, oh, wow, yeah, that is really strange.
They don't want people looking at that.
But this one, they were more than willing to go to court over.
I think it's because they have a winning case.
I just don't think this is true.
Owens explained that she had been sued by the first lady man, in her own words, of France, repeating her contentious claim that Bridget Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, was born male.
It's a claim that Owens previously said I would stake my entire professional reputation on.
It might be her entire fortune, at least.
I'd stake my reputation on it, such as it is.
Which she may now have to, as the Macrones seek to take Owens to trial, filing a 219-page complaint for a Delaware court on Wednesday that alleges she has subjected them to a campaign of global humiliation.
It's hard to believe the Macrones could get any more humiliating.
Macron's are represented by Claire Locke, a law firm that specializes in high-profile reputation cases, and is perhaps best known for serving as co-counsel for Dominion Voting Systems in its historic $787 million settlement against Fox News over the cable network's 2020 election lies.
Now, I saw Tim Poole just praising Candace Owens, saying, oh, she's a genius.
This is 4D chess.
You see what she's doing is she's baiting them into a lawsuit so that she can say, oh, what?
Is there something negative about being called a man?
Is there something inherently bad?
You know, trying to say she's going to dismantle the trans ideology with this.
Which doesn't really work because I think it allows elect to maintain ideological consistency and say, no, no, we've always said that misgendering someone was wrong and evil.
And if you do it, you should be, you know, faced with a lawsuit or punished by law.
I don't think this is 4D chess.
And if it is, it's a really bad move.
It's stupid.
Unless you have complete evidence, 100% proof-positive evidence that Bridget McCrone is a man, whether they win and get a judgment, I don't think Candace wins and gets anything out of this.
I think it just makes her look foolish.
I think this looks just ridiculous on the face of it.
It seems more obfuscation.
Well, what do we do?
How can we get people to stop talking about the Epstein files?
I know.
Candace, you're going to have to claim Bridget Macrone as a man.
And Macrone, you're going to have to sue her.
The complaint against Owens requests not yet specified actual presumed and punitive monetary damages, and such other additional remedies as the court may deem just and proper.
This was really a last resort.
Lead counsel Tom Clare about the lawsuit.
We have attempted to engage with Owens for the last year, putting evidence in front of her, request after request after request, that you just simply do the right thing, Claire said.
These attempts were ignored.
Enough is enough.
Owen's response, however, suggests the saga will not end anytime soon.
I am fully prepared to take on this battle, Owens said, on behalf of the entire world.
I will see you in court.
That's right.
She's doing this for us.
She's going to expose the fact that Bridget McCrone is a man and that will prove what?
Even if this is true, how does this help anyone?
What does it matter?
Isn't there something else you could be spending your time on?
If it's true, Macrone is still, you know, just gross.
Their relationship, yes, is disgusting and weird.
However, it was already disgusting and weird.
How does this in any way matter?
I'm completely lost on how this is relevant.
In the complaint, which included 99 pages of allegations of fact and outlined 22 alleged counts of defamation and false light, the Macron's claim that Owens has endorsed, manufactured, and promoted a series of false statements about them, including that Bridget Macron was born a man and transitioned to identify as a woman, Now, I...
I think their relationship is...
It's probably very low.
So perhaps by their own laws, it doesn't constitute statutory rape.
I think either way, you can argue that it is grooming.
That she was substantially older.
She was in fact his teacher.
And that makes it extremely disgusting.
Zoxov Oxaz.
Well, I heard that the authors of the book that Candace Owens has been using to back up her claims.
Claims that are in the book, these authors were sued and they won in England already, so interesting.
Interesting.
Discovery for the Macron case should be very simple.
Yeah.
Tunnel Lord.
That was KWD68.
Tunnel Lord 1337 says, why is Candace even wasting time with France?
That's right.
Who cares?
What does it matter?
KWD68, Candace is helping with distraction.
Back to the claim or the statement about them being sued and England winning.
I'd be curious as to what they were sued over.
Because defamation is difficult to prove.
You don't necessarily have to prove what they're saying is false.
I think you have to prove what they're saying has caused you material damage.
I believe that's how it works in the U.S. I'm not entirely sure if that's how it works in England, but that's an entirely different thing than proving that their claims aren't true.
I don't know.
I feel like just the fact they're saying that this person, she's a man is itself just damaging.
Like, that by itself is probably enough.
It would have been in times past, but in the world we are today, I'm not sure, you know, claiming that someone is trans.
In fact, it may actually be a boon.
You may, you know, you get special privileges.
You get to do whatever you want.
You get worshipped.
So in fact, they might be able, Candace may be able to make the case that she was helping Bridget.
She was giving her a leg up in the caste system.
Pesavante, 1776, age of consent in France is 15.
Yeah, young.
Very young.
I don't remember offhand when it was that Macron met Bridget, but I'm pretty sure it was younger than that.
Now, I'm sure at this point they would say, no, we didn't have any sexual relations before the age of 15.
But still, I would argue that it was grooming.
Tonel Lord 1337, the age of consent is that low in France, let's sever alliance with them.
They can be our ally when they want to not be so gross.
Yeah, it's low in a lot of places in Europe, and I want to say in Japan it's something like 14.
There are places around the world where it is incredibly low, and it is very creepy.
The lawsuit's I sent a piece of evidence, including photos of a young Bridget, a contemporaneous newspaper announcement of her birth, and the fact she gave birth to three children with her first husband to refute Owen's claim.
Those are...
I think that might just win the case outright.
Now, I know biology has been kind of politicized, but this is a bit objective.
Yeah.
That one's a bit hard to fake.
Assuming, again, you know, you have proof that they're yours.
Which, simply doing a DNA test on her and the children would probably...
And also takes aim at Owens' credibility, pointing to her career of routinely peddling misinformation under the guise of legitimate reporting and saying that she built a brand on provocation, not truth.
Owens, who previously worked as communications director for the conservative activist organization Turning Point USA, was fired for anti-Semitism.
The complaint argues that Owens monetized her allegedly defamatory claims about the Macrons, including by selling merchandise such as a shirt displaying Bridget McCron on a fake Time magazine that says, Man of the Year.
The lawsuit highlights that Owens was sent a detailed retraction demand letter in December that conclusively proved, or conclusively disproved, I should say, her claims about the Macrons, but Owens still went on to produce an eight-part video series titled Becoming Bridget.
Wow, eight parts.
Really, really kind of milked that one.
Where she continued to peddle false claims.
Owens, according to the complaint, misrepresented the letter to her followers and suggested that the Macrons were attempting to intimidate her, which he cited as inspiration for producing the series, which was aggressively monetized and used to elevate her personal brand.
Who was the lady that said Michelle Obama was a man?
I'm so bad with names, but it is such an ultimate petty move to start that rumor, to say it directly into the camera for paparazzi and then just die.
Just the last thing you do is start this rumor and then pass away so no one gets to question you on it again.
No one gets to see if there's any missteps in your story.
What a power move, truly.
Her conduct reveals a clear motive to generate controversy for financial and reputational gain.
Joan Rivers.
Thank you, KWD68.
I appreciate that.
Yes, Joan Rivers engaged in the ultimate power moved against Michelle Obama, starting a rumor about her, and then just passing away.
Michelle Obama could get no satisfaction, and it has haunted her for the rest of time.
It will continue to haunt her.
She will say anything, regardless of how outrageous or unfounded, to attract attention, build her platform, and achieve notoriety.
I actually, to me, it would be more entertaining if Michelle Obama is really a woman and this is just some fallacious rumor and there's nothing she can do about it.
You know?
Just, it continually dogs and hounds her.
And Joan Rivers laughs from beyond the grave.
Don't fag me, bro.
Who said Candace isn't telling the truth about Macaroni's dude wife?
I have seen no convincing proof.
That's all I'm saying.
I have seen no convincing proof.
And it seems a bit too convenient.
It's a weird thing to say.
That would be very impressive to hide that for so long from the public eye or just at all.
With the sheer number of with how weird their relationship already is, the number of times people have looked into it, the fact that this only came out recently, at least maybe it's been a rumor that's circulated, but I haven't seen anything about it.
I haven't seen anyone talking about it until right now when the lawsuit popped.
Now, to be fair, I don't follow Candace Owens.
I don't follow many people at all in that sphere.
And I don't really follow people that cover the drama that goes on in these spheres.
So maybe, maybe there's some truth to it.
But I haven't seen...
But I haven't seen anything that actually sways me yet.
And again, to me, this is just...
Whoever the leader of France is married to is irrelevant to me.
I don't think about France in my daily life aside from the fact I'm sad that it is being overrun by Muslims.
That's what I think about with France.
Macron is a wicked, wicked man, and it's because he's destroying France.
This would be another wickedness, but it would not be the thing that I focus on.
Lawsuit claims overwhelming evidence of actual malice, a standard required to be proved clearly and convincingly by plaintiffs.
Now see, this is where things get tricky.
Actual malice.
In this instance, you have to prove that I believe Candace Owens knowingly claimed she was a man, claimed she was a man while knowing that she was a woman, spreading misinformation and lies on purpose, which, of course, is extremely difficult.
You need to have some kind of hard evidence or catch them somehow.
Now.
In order for a defamation case to overcome First Amendment protections.
In addition to her response to the retraction demand letter, financial motivations, and political bias, it cites Owen's reliance on non-credible sources to promote an inherently improbable conspiracy theory.
And the complete references a ruling by a court in France last September that found two of Owens' sources, so-called clairvoyant.
Clairvoyant.
We're getting into dangerous territory.
Amandine Roy, an amateur detective, Natacha, amateur detective, Natasha, liable for libel for spreading false claims about Bridget Macron and her brother.
An appeals court overturned the convictions earlier this month of the complaint against Owens.
Notes that the ruling did not overturn the judgment on the basis that the statements were true, rather because it believed the defendants made the claim in good faith.
See, there we go.
So, I mean, I guess that's all the proof you need.
You've got a clairvoyant that says Macron's wife is a man.
That's right.
Maybe we can get a numerologist in here and tell me what her birthday numbers add up to.
See, when you add the 3 to the 7 and the 7 to the 12, it turns into...
It seems like calling yourself a clairvoyant would be the ultimate cheat code for any ridiculous inflammatory statement you want to make about someone if it was revealed to me in a dream.
I made it in good faith, honestly.
I'm just a very bad clairvoyant.
You know, sometimes the spirits, they get confused.
This was a transmission about Michelle Obama.
In summarizing the reputational and emotional harm the French leader and his wife have suffered, the complaint says that Owens' allegedly defamatory statements caused numerous individuals who heard or read them, both those who had held the Macron's in high regard and those who otherwise would have, as well as those with no awareness or opinion of the Macrones, to view them with contempt, to hold them in low regard and to avoid associating or doing business with them, and to encourage others to avoid associating or doing business with them as well.
Well, I'll tell you that I don't believe this, but I still hold The Macrones in extremely high contempt.
I have no respect for them at all.
It has nothing to do with whether Bridget is a man or not.
It has everything to do with Macron's destruction of France, his being a globalist puppet.
Macron's described the spread of Owen's false statements by other media personalities and influencers, including Joe Rogan, who's widely described as the most popular podcaster in the world.
On March and April episodes of his show, which has 20 million subscribers on YouTube, Rogan said he believed Owen's claims.
Yeah, Bridget McCrone's a man.
She got me hook line and sinker, Rogan said.
See, now this is another knock against it.
If Joe Rogan believes it.
She got it from a clairvoyant, and she told it to Joe Rogan, so naturally he would take it at face value.
Was this clairvoyant on DMT by any chance?
Oh, that's very credible.
Rogan said of Owens, noting that if her claims are false, she'd be getting sued right now.
They would sue her.
Well, there you go, Joe.
There you go.
Maybe.
I hope.
Maybe Candace is about to call him up and be like, why did you open your big mouth?
Why didn't you shut up?
Minute Man Militia, Big Mike Obama.
Haha.
That's right.
I do find it funny.
Owens herself had also practically dared the Macron's to sue her according to the complaint, telling them after the December attraction to, bring it, I'll run down to the courthouse and file the lawsuit for you, Owens said.
I might even cover your legal expenses.
Some very bold statements from Candace.
Some extremely inflammatory statements there.
I think no matter what, you don't want a lawsuit.
Getting involved in a lawsuit is always a painful experience.
It's always awful.
If you're going to do it, it should be for something actually, truly meaningful.
Something that is deeply rooted in standing up for free speech rights.
And you can argue this is free speech, I suppose.
However, it's goofy.
In a 52-minute podcast episode with a share card that advertised this took Kahones.
Owens insisted if you need any more evidence that Bridget McCrone is definitely a man, it is just what is happening right now.
The idea that you'd file this lawsuit is all of the proof that you need, which I find to not really track logically.
I don't really feel that that's solid logic there.
But you know what?
So she says.
This to me is just, again, more ridiculous nonsense.
More just chaff.
More random insanity to keep you distracted from what's really going on and what really matters.
But hey, we'll see how this plays out.
Perhaps I'll be proven wrong.
Perhaps it'll come out in court and Bridget McCrone will be proved a man.
And I'll eat my words.
I will eat them.
We are going to take a break.
We're actually going to play the video from my dad.
It's about an hour and 10 minutes long.
It's about Zionism.
As I said, he recorded this last night.
It is brand new David Knight.
And as such, we're very excited to pass this along to you.
Here it is.
You look at it and you say, well, maybe these Hinty books, it's H-E-N-T-Y, by the way.
Maybe.
analyzing the globalist's next move And now, the David Nut Show.
I wanted to come on and talk a little bit about what's going on with the wars, with Israel, because I've had a lot of people writing, asking, sending books, and I appreciate that.
And I will get to some of the emails that have been sent in.
But I want to take this from a larger picture.
My intention with this program, we cover a lot of bad news because I want to warn people about things I see coming that are bad.
But I don't want to leave people without hope.
But there isn't any hope in politics or Washington.
And the hope is in Christ.
And so I want to point people to that.
You know, it was before I had the strokes.
I talked about Caitlin Johnston, who is an Australian writer.
And she was just astounded that Christians would support war the way they were supporting it.
It's a real stumbling block to people, and rightfully so.
How in the world can we talk about a loving Christ, sacrificial love?
How can we talk and speak against abortion and then applaud the targeting of civilians, especially children?
It is hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance that cannot be helped but be seen.
And it is something that gets in the way of people being able to see Christ.
And we don't want to do that as Christians, do we?
And so I think it's important for us to look at that.
You know, we look at CDC talking about how the fertility rate fell from 1.6 in 2023 to 1.5 in 2024.
And, you know, our population is crashing everywhere in the Western world because people become lovers of themselves.
They don't care about their family.
They don't care about having children.
They don't want to look at the future with That and it's right for us to oppose that, but how can we oppose that and then cheer unending war and a war conducted against a civilian population?
Unceasing.
And so, as they point out, you've got to have 2.1 kids just to maintain a level population.
When we get down to 1.6 or 1.5, we're looking at a declining population.
And this is something that's been happening everywhere.
Japan, South Korea, European countries as well.
This article from Grand News says the Trump administration has taken steps to increase falling birth rates.
Have they?
They won't stop the mRNA injections.
So, you know, they're still cheering.
As a matter of fact, they don't recommend them.
Great.
But Trump is actively pushing with his technocrat pals like Larry Ellison.
The very first thing he did was to have Larry Ellison come in and talk about how he wanted to use AI to make custom mRNA injections for individuals.
What a nightmare scenario this is.
And of course it won't be tested.
Just like Trump won't test artificial intelligence.
He's got to race with it, right?
We've got to race with Chinese.
No time to test anything to see what it's going to do.
Let's just run with it.
And I don't know, maybe he's going to explain that he was doing his bit to stop the falling birth rates by hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein.
I don't know if that's one way he gets rid of, I guess.
But as we look at this, we see Palestinians being starved to death, especially children and the ill.
And I have to say, when I look at people cheering this, and there are people who cheer it, who cheer it as Christians, what an abomination that is, to say that we're going to withhold food.
Did they ever read, I was hungry and you fed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was in prison and you visited me?
And how does that jive with this?
Well, as I pointed out, a total of 111 people, mainly children, have been starved to death in this genocidal war.
One of the top starvation deaths.
On top of it, rather, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces while attempting to get food aid.
That's not counting the people they dropped bombs on.
111 international organizations.
This is according to anti-war.com.
111 international organizations said the mass starvation occurring in Gaza was due to Israel's restrictions and the killing of people seeking food.
The government of Israel's restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death, said the organization.
So 100 Palestinians in Gaza killed over 24 hours.
If you go to antiwar.com, you'll see this every day.
One day it's 75, another it's 100, sometimes it's over 100.
Every 24 hours they're killing that many people.
And as one article here from JD Hall, bombshell expose, he says he's about to come out with, showing how APAC, the Israeli lobbying organization that doesn't have to register as a foreign agent, is buying influence in American churches.
They've already bought influence in the halls of Congress.
And this is not just handing out free Schofield Bibles.
APAC is using its financial resources to influence evangelical churches and seminaries, funding educational materials and programs that promote Christian Zionism.
He says, if you thought Soros money was bad, you haven't seen anything yet.
Would you like to find out that Talmudic Jews are spending millions of dollars to influence your church and your Bible curriculum and to give, paying to have editorial oversight over Sunday school literature?
This is the worst case scenario of injecting politics into religion.
As I've said many times, you do that, you wind up with politics once you mix the two together.
And you wind up with politics as religion.
And that's what we're talking about here.
We're talking about politics.
Don't mix your religion in with what's happening in Israel.
This is one political party that not even half the people voted for.
There's a lot of Jewish people who don't like Netanyahu.
And so, you know, when you want to talk about prophecy events and what's going to happen with Israel, what is Israel?
Who is Israel?
Is it one man?
Is it Netanyahu?
Is it a political party?
Is it a political entity, Israel?
Or maybe it's an ethnic group.
Or maybe, if you want to look at it, maybe it's people who have some kind of relationship with God.
So is that going to be Orthodox Jews, ultra-Orthodox Jews?
Is it going to be Messianic Jews?
You know, we're not doing Jews a favor.
I think it's one of the most anti-Semitic things that I've heard from some of these Christian Zionists who mix politics with religion to say that don't talk to them about Jesus.
They're Jews.
They don't need to know about this.
There's one way.
There's one way.
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father but by me.
So why would we hide that from anybody?
I mean, that's one of the most unloving things you could do.
As a matter of fact, when MacArthur died, he went on several times with Ben Shapiro.
And MacArthur was heavily into Zionism.
And Ben Shapiro, of course, had nice things to say about him.
But he said he was not offended by the fact that MacArthur would spend a half hour talking to him about Christ.
He said he did it out of concern for him.
And I have to look at this and say, Paula White and other people like that don't have that same kind of concern.
They just want the politics.
They want the grandstanding.
They want the crowds.
And it's truly amazing.
So he said, APAC is largely unreported, but they're pouring a lot of money in.
He said, it's not just about political lobbying.
They have a campaign to shape the theology, the curricula, and the Sunday sermons of a lot of churches.
And that's where this base is coming From and he said, surprisingly, it's coming from some Reformed institutions who teach covenant theology as opposed to dispensationalism.
And for those of you who are not a part of that dispute, I'm not going to get into the minutiae of it.
That's one of the reasons why I don't talk about the prophecy aspect of it, because I don't want to divide people into factions.
I want people united with Christ.
I want them to see Christ in faith, and I want them to not see a hypocritical picture of Christ as we fight over these things.
And so I think it's very important to understand that.
So the evidence I'm uncovering, he says, is staggering, but not ready to go out.
Yeah, he's got a sub stack.
And he says he knows he's going to be attacked for it.
So he wants to get everything squared away and documented to the nth degree before he releases it.
But he's kind of giving a tease of it here.
He says, of course, I didn't know this.
APAC is the largest political action committee in U.S. history.
You know, they give tens of millions of dollars to congressional candidates.
And guess what?
They get back billions of dollars every year.
And this is what you see.
It's not just Israel.
It's not just one thing.
It's every special interest group.
Politicians are the best return on investment you can get for your money.
You give them millions and you get back billions.
Or you give them thousands and you get back millions, thousand times what you gave these people.
How could you?
Maybe we're going about this the wrong way, right?
But truly it is.
I mean, you can get massive amount of money from politicians.
And so he points out that the $60 million in revenue for educational foundation that they have.
And that educational foundation is bankrolling congressional junkets and educational programs.
It's kind of the same type of thing that we saw with the Fatala Gulen Muslim group in Turkey.
They would, through their schools, you know, they could not get state money as a charter school if they taught that.
So what they did, they positioned themselves out there as, quote, schools of science and math, quote unquote.
And they would look at some of their best and brightest, and they would give them a junket, a trip to go to Turkey, and they would do a lot of nice things for them, show them the very best side of Turkey and that type of thing.
And of course, they would do it not just for students, but they would do it for state politicians who are making sure they were getting money.
And there was a lot of money.
They got nearly a billion dollars in Texas several years ago when I talked to Mark Hall about it.
He has an excellent documentary, Killing Ed.
And if you haven't seen that, you really should see that and understand the worst case scenario for charter schools.
That is a Fatalagulan cult.
He died just recently, but his institution lives.
So, you know, when you look at what APAC is doing, they're like everybody else.
He says APAC, through their Educational Foundation, isn't just buying influence in Washington, though.
It's buying influence with American evangelicalism, churches, seminaries, even small group Bible studies, Christian Zionism, the belief that Israel's modern state fulfills biblical prophecy and demands unwavering Christian support of Israel.
And of course, it is a hot-button issue.
People will break fellowship with you over this.
And that's not why I avoid it.
I don't want to talk about it.
I just, when I look at the complicated prophecy charts and everything else like that, it's like, the first thing is, okay, it's just cut through this.
Christ says, come to him as a little child if you want to really have that kind of childlike faith.
That's what's required.
Not this complicated prophecy charts and theological arguments and everything.
That is working against that kind of childlike faith and relationship that is there.
And that is not the good news.
That's what everybody wants to talk about.
Everybody, it's very sensational.
And, you know, I just tell a lot of people, if you want to know the future, go get a Ouija board or call the witch of endor, but let's not make this a Bible study.
He said, this is also not about moral alignment.
It's about foreign money shaping what is being taught in Sunday school, preached from pulpits, and studied in seminaries.
And he said, and it's happening across all denominations, from the 14 million Southern Baptist Conference to, he said, shockingly, reformed institutions that traditionally reject Zionism's dispensationalist roots in favor of covenant theology.
And just for those of you just who are not part of this, what we're talking about is the idea basically that God, dispensationalist God, is working at different times in very different ways, whereas the covenant theology is really more like a series of covenants that continually expand out.
That's my understanding of it anyway.
I'm sure people would have a disagreement with that even.
Southern Baptists, with its 2018 resolution affirming Israel's right to exist, is an obvious target.
Megachurch pastors, like Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist, with 45,000 members, or Ed Young of the Second Baptist in Houston with 70,000 members, attended APAC's Friends of the Faith sessions at its annual conferences where they're armed with pro-Israel talking points and materials.
These pastors weave Zionist narratives into sermons and curricula to frame Israel as God's chosen nation.
Did God come to save an ethnic group or political group?
I don't think so.
I don't think so at all.
As a matter of fact, whatever you think about eschatology, I've talked about this before.
They have a Hagar issue.
And that is, you know, when Abraham had a promise from God, rather than wait for God to do it in God's way, in God's timing, he and Sarah decided that they were going to have a child with her slave, Hagar.
And the result of that is what we see playing out in the Mideast right now, the fight between the Ishmaelites and the Israelites.
But the point is, wait for God's timing.
Wait.
If you think you've got a promise from God, wait for him to do it in the way he said he's going to do it.
And be patient in his timing.
If you take it into your own hands, and if you violate his clear principles, bad things are going to come out of that.
He said, the real jawdropper, however, is a reformed world.
Covenant theology, which dominates reformed churches, teaches that the church, not modern Israel, inherits God's promise to Abraham.
Zionism, with its focus on literal Jewish return to the land, is anathema to this view.
He says, yet I'm uncovering evidence that APAC's money is reaching to reformed influencers because money speaks louder than their theology.
They may disagree with the theology, but they'll take the money and they'll teach it for that.
He says, our reformed influencers, pastors, theologians, even podcasters, are quietly incorporating pro-Israel messaging into their teaching.
This is a scandal of seismic proportions, a foreign lobby influencing the theology of churches that should, by their own doctrine, reject it.
Israel is funding Sunday school lessons that your kids are learning, small group studies that your neighbor attends, and the sermons that are shaping evangelical politics, and no one is talking about it.
It's kind of like the rabbi that went on record not too long ago saying, the problem with you Christians is you're only a worship one-choo.
You should be worshiping us all.
And that's evidently what APAC is determined to accomplish.
The story is bigger than a single column can contain, he says.
He's looking through financial trials, conference agendas.
So, you know, stay tuned.
Well, I'll give you this information when he gets to it.
But you've already got what we've seen APAC doing is giving money to congressmen, to state legislators, to essentially shut down free speech, to enforce censorship.
I mean, it truly is they want to tell you what to believe in churches.
They want to tell you what you can or cannot say on social media.
And you've got one Democrat and a Republican.
Democrat is Josh Gotheimer from New Jersey.
The Republican is Don Bacon from Nebraska, I think it is.
And they have taken a lot of money from APAC, and they've got a bill where if a social media, if you say something that AIPAC doesn't like, if you criticize their political entity of Israel, they will call you anti-Semitic, play the race card, and demand that social media take you down.
And if they don't do it, then they get a $5 million a day fine for failing to censor people that APAC wants censored.
So, you know, don't criticize this political entity here.
They call it Stop Hate Act.
No, it's Stop Free Speech Act is what it really is.
That's what we get in return.
They bless us with censorship.
They bless us by attacking our Bill of Rights, our Constitution, our God-given rights, by the way.
That's what they do when you help them.
But if you criticize Netanyahu, we'll call you racist and hateful.
It's about a politician.
It's about a political party.
And just remember, I think Netanyahu hates Israelis.
Look at what he did during the pandemic.
He was one of the worst politicians in terms of vaccine mandates and restrictions on movements and other things.
And of course, when they attacked Iran, they knew that there was going to be a massive wave of counterattacks.
So it's like, you know, well, I'm going to attack them, and a lot of Israelis are going to die, and buildings are going to be destroyed.
But hey, you know, we have to do that.
So much for his concern about Israel.
We're announcing a new tool in our online arsenal to protect our nation against terrorist organizations, he said.
Well, I think they're terrorizing America and they're terrorizing the Constitution.
There's no reason why anyone, especially terrorists or anyone online, should access social media platforms to promote radical, hate-filled violence.
And this is saying that speech is violence.
Well, I think we should remove APAC and the Israeli government by that same token.
That would apply to them as well.
Greenblatt, head of APAC, said, anti-Semitism has gone viral, in large part because of social media, adding that bigots and extremists exploit social media to recruit, to radicalize.
I think he doesn't understand what's going on.
What is recruiting and radicalizing people to criticize Israel is their starvation of children and their focusing on civilians.
They've got them in a walled camp and they're killing them, picking them off incessantly.
So you don't fight Nazis by becoming a Nazi.
And that's what APAC is doing.
That's what Netanyahu is doing.
They're becoming the monsters that they fight.
So anti-Semitism is criticism of a political party in Israel, in case you didn't know by their definition.
So Representative Gottheimer also co-sponsored a bill to transfer American B-2 stealth bombers and bunker busters to Israel as well.
As Chris Minahan said, this is a blatant attack on free speech and the First Amendment rights of Americans.
But these representatives have shown they're more than willing to put the interests of Israel over the rights of the American people.
That truly is it.
But I want to talk more broadly about the attitude of Christians in terms of just supporting war.
Because I think being pro-war is being antichrist.
You know, it's not Just the Antichrist.
The spirit of Antichrist, of opposition to Christ, of being diametrically opposed, antithetical to him, has been around for 2,000 years.
And of course, I think when we support mass killing, for what reason, right?
I mean, I think we have a right to defend innocent life.
And that's really what the just war understanding is about.
What is it that justifies conducting war?
Well, self-defense is what it is.
And once that, the goal should be to try to limit it to combatants, to try to end it as soon as possible.
And to the goal of a war is to stop war.
It's not to perpetuate it forever.
But that unfortunately has been the goal of American policy, and it's the goal of Israeli policy as well.
And aid groups are blaming Israel's Gaza restrictions for mass starvation.
Like I said before, 111 organizations, Doctors Without Borders is one of them, save the children.
They are adding calls for aid restrictions to be eased and for the war to end.
We've had the doctors who are there as volunteers talk about the fact they've never seen anything like it before.
Children shot by snipers in the chest and a second shot to the head just to make sure.
And this is what is happening there.
The joint statement is the latest attempt to draw attention to a growing hunger crisis in Gaza.
It was released after the European Union and at least 28 governments, including Israeli allies like Britain, France, and Canada, on Monday condemned the drip feeding of aid, quote unquote, said that civilian suffering had, quote, reached new depths.
Doctors Without Borders in Gaza has reported a sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition.
Adults frequently collapse from hunger, the aid group said in their statement, adding that stockpiles of food and other supplies warehoused outside of the territory were being prevented from reaching people in need.
Hospitals had registered 10 deaths because of famine or malnutrition in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total of deaths from hunger since Saturday to 43.
And on the other side of this, there's an editorial here from John Spencer, and he says, I'm a war scholar, and he says that there is no genocide in Gaza.
He said he's an experienced soldier, and he was invited by the Israeli government to observe what was there, and he said he didn't see anything, so therefore it's not happening.
Well, I guess we have his testimony of what the Israeli government wanted him to see, allowed him to see, versus the testimony of 111 organizations as well as 28 countries, including several that have been friendly to Israel, who are not opposed to Israel or to its existence.
It was a New York Times op-ed piece.
I'm a genocide scholar, and I know it when I see it, he said.
And so he's rebutting that.
That New York Times op-ed was by someone named Omar Bartov.
He accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
And this guy, John Spencer, says genocide is defined as a specific intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group in whole or in part.
I would say this qualifies, wouldn't you?
By that definition, what we see there.
Genocide is a term that was coined by a Jewish scholar in terms of talking about what the Turks did to the Armenians in Armenia.
And that's exactly what they were doing.
They were killing them in order to drive them off of an area of land completely to take it over.
And that's what we see happening in Gaza.
There's no question about it.
It's been made very clear by both Netanyahu and Trump, as well as statements by the Israeli government, that that is their policy, their purpose.
He says, I'm a war expert.
I've led soldiers in combat.
I've trained military units in urban warfare.
I've taught military history.
Since October the 7th, I've been to Gaza four times, embedded with Israeli Defense Forces.
In other words, seeing what they want him to see.
He says, I've interviewed the Prime Minister of Israel, the Defense Minister, the IDF chief of staff, etc.
And he said, in reaction to this New York Times op-ed piece by Barkov, he said, it presents Netanyahu's reference to, quote, remember Amalek.
And he's not the only one to do that.
I've seen Christian pastors do that.
And I think it's reprehensible.
Clearly, when you talk about Amalek in the Bible, it was always talking about genocide.
You know, when it is something that is very much in the mind of the Jewish people when they celebrate Purim, which is the story of Esther.
In that story, you had a guy who was an Amalekite, and he nearly gets the king while they are being held captive in another country.
He nearly gets the king to kill every Jew that is in captivity, but it doesn't happen.
But he's an Amalekite, and this is something that's really hammered home to them.
So when you say an Amalekite, and remember Amalek, that is what it's talking about.
He said, Bartov said that that phrase is a smoking gun, and it is.
This guy doesn't know anything about Jewish history.
He claims that he does.
He said, it serves as a warning to remain vigilant against threats, not as a call to mass killing.
No, go back and read your Bible.
You know, you'll see that that's what they're calling for.
They're calling for genocide.
And it grieves me to see Christian pastors using that kind of language against people today.
They have no call to do that.
None whatsoever.
Destroy every last person of an ethnic group is what they're talking about.
And when he says that It's not a call to genocide.
That is a massive red flag for this guy.
Unable to find intent among those actually directing the war, the op-ed on New York Times, he said, turns to far-right politicians like Bezalel Smotrik and Nissim Vaturi.
These individuals do not command troops, issue orders, or shape battlefield decisions.
No, they just call as politicians who are shaping the policy.
They call for genocide.
And so that's what he doesn't want to look at.
He says, Israel has taken extraordinary steps to limit civilian harm.
Again, that is not what the 111 different groups say.
He said, Israel has delivered more humanitarian aid to Gaza than any military in history.
And it's provided to an enemy population during wartime.
We have covered the fact that they were restricting that.
As a matter of fact, if you go back and look at the massive disaster of Biden, where they had that ridiculous pier and all of the logistical things that were forced upon them that made absolutely no sense, they had to put it on a boat and then take it to the end of this long pier that was out there, which eventually fell apart.
All of that was done because Israel refused to open up roads to let food be brought in.
And so that was a way that the Biden administration was trying to straddle the fence and to say to critics of the starvation plan, oh, we're getting food in there to them.
At the same time, you know, walking on eggshells with Israel.
That right there shows that they've done everything they can to keep food from civilians.
He said, the New York Times editorial cites death tolls from Hamas health authorities without question.
This is a game we can always play, especially during, as a war is going on.
I don't believe any figures from either side in the middle of a war.
But when we have this many different organizations and this many different countries that have gone in and documented this, I think we can get, we may not have the ability to come up with exact numbers, but we certainly can get an idea of what is happening.
And just in case you can't, it was Donald Trump who gave us the clarity on what all this stuff was with his clumsy, hem-fisted lusting over the property and how he's going to build luxury properties there.
War is evaluated based on the actions of commanders, the goals set by leaders, and how well the military follows the laws of war, not by taking statistics out of context.
I would agree.
And by that standard, I would say it is clearly genocide.
He said, war is hell, it's inhumane, it's destructive, it's ugly, but it's not automatically a crime.
Nations must not target civilians, he said.
Israel is doing that, he said, and I have seen it.
No, you saw what the Israeli government wanted you to see when you were embedded with their army.
Other people have seen exactly the opposite.
He said, genocide requires clear, provable intent to destroy a people and remove them from an area through sustained, deliberate actions.
Trump even admitted this.
He and Netanyahu both did.
So he says, the laws of war do not prohibit war itself.
What are the laws of war?
Well, he doesn't name it, but the laws of war, basically what Western civilization has used for a long time, but now rejected as of the 20th century, which is a just war.
And I think by these different measures that he has here, Israel fails on all these measures.
He says, requires that operations distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, that force be proportional to the objective, that commanders take all flexible precautions to protect civilian life.
I think on all of these, we have seen that they get a failing grade.
And so NBC and others have reported, you know, again, we can talk about statistics, but, you know, as Stalin said, you know, a million people dying is a statistic.
One death is a tragedy.
So they will talk about individual stories.
This is a story of a baby boy dying of starvation.
There's many, many tragedies.
That's why it is such a tragedy.
These people like Trump and Netanyahu will let people die, entire families be wiped out, so they can build some kind of a luxury vacation resort or whatever use they have for that land that they're lusting over.
Israel lifted its blockade in late May, but it has since allowed only limited aid into the enclave, and Gaza's population continues to face dire shortages.
The UN said Tuesday that more than 1,000 Palestinians have now been killed by Israeli forces while seeking food since the start of new aid distribution system.
Israel did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment on the children's reported death from malnutrition in recent days and all.
But doctors inside Gaza say the mounting hunger crisis has overwhelmingly affected children and pregnant women.
They said, one doctor said, American critical care nurse, rather, not a doctor, who is volunteering in Gaza, told NBC News, her name is Elidolus Burgos, that she had witnessed an entire population suffering from starvation because of the Israeli blockade.
She said the signs are evident, not just in the patients in the ICU, but also with the health workers themselves who are showing severe malnutrition, temporal wasting, muscle waste, and frailty.
There's just no food, she said.
There's just nothing getting in and hasn't been getting in for months.
Crowds gathered Tuesday at the gates of a small charity kitchen in Gaza, one of the few still operating in the enclave.
They said children were clamoring on top of one another, holding out pots and pans to the fence.
They said all they have to offer them is lentil soup, No vegetables, no rice, nothing else.
It's nowhere near enough either for the massive crowds that come here, she said.
So as Free Thought Project, and it's actually Caitlin Johnstone again, she said, famine as a tool of genocide, Gaza isn't starving, it is being starved.
She said, and this is the thing, again, it is amazing to see more moral clarity from an atheist liberal like Caitlin Johnstone than it is from pastors of large churches.
Does that bother you?
It bothers me, and it bothers her as well, and many other people.
Not only are they supporting this, but they're cutting these people off from being open to hearing about the gospel.
She said, malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza are beginning to climb.
The health ministry reported 18 in just one 24-hour period.
Doctors report that people are collapsing in the street.
A Gaza journalist is warning that the world not to be surprised if the remaining reporters in the enclave were soon silenced by starvation.
She said, meanwhile, Israeli forces are setting new records with massacres of starving civilians seeking aid.
85 killed in a single day on Sunday.
She said, if this isn't evil, then nothing is evil.
She says, what's the plan here?
Do we just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to death with the support of our own governments?
And then what?
We just go along with our lives, knowing that that's what happened, that this is what we are as a society, that our so-called civilization is comfortable allowing something like that to happen, that our rulers could do the same thing to another inconvenient population at any time.
And of course, I always think back to what our rulers did to the global population, people like Trump and Netanyahu, in 2020.
Medical martial law, lockdown, busting the supply chains of our own food, and even shutting churches down.
That's the legacy of Trump.
And all these people who are looking at this, at him now, finally waking up to some degree, some of them.
And yet, where were they when he was doing all that stuff in 2020?
They made excuses for him.
She said, how exactly is everyone planning to go about living their lives at that point?
How does that work exactly?
She said, I'm asking because I really don't know.
I mean, I know what my own government and its allies should do, but I don't know what we as ordinary members of the public are supposed to do to stop this.
It's not some mystery how to get a ceasefire in Gaza.
The empire is the fire.
It simply needs to cease firing.
And this is the whole Ukraine thing as well.
If Trump wanted to stop the war, he could stop it by stopping the ammunition going to Ukraine.
He doesn't want to stop it.
It's just a lie, a bluff of the worst sort.
Israel's Holocaust in Gaza is made possible only by the support of its Western backers, primarily the United States.
Numerous Israeli military insiders have acknowledged none of this would be possible without U.S. support.
We are the nation that is the source of wars and starvation and assassination around the world.
And I look at this and I think, how long is God going to go before he judges America for this kind of stuff?
Now, it's not you and I. We don't approve of this.
We can speak out about it, but we can't stop it.
And yet it's done with our tax money.
It's done in our names.
That really should concern us all.
She said, if the U.S. and its Western allies ceased backing Israel's onslaught in Gaza, a ceasefire would have to occur.
Same with Ukraine.
It's not a mystery how to get food into Gaza.
You just drive it in and give it to people.
But the Israelis won't let that happen.
And they fought to keep that from happening from the very beginning.
They've got roads, they've got gates.
The only reason people in Gaza are starving is because Western governments, including her own in Australia, conspired to pretend to believe that the UNRWA is a terrorist organization in order to justify cutting off critical aid while doing nothing to pressure Israel into allowing food to flow in.
The organization's funding and delivery systems to feed Gaza are all 100% fully available at no cost to Israel, by the way.
They're just not being allowed to provide aid because the goal is to remove all Palestinians from Gaza via death or displacement.
The people of Gaza are starving because the West is helping Israel starve Gaza.
It's just that simple.
This isn't some kind of unfortunate famine caused by a drought or by natural disaster.
It's deliberately manufactured.
It's a starvation campaign.
It's implemented with genocidal intent.
To paraphrase Utah Phillips, Gaza isn't starving, it is being starved.
And the people who are starving it have names and addresses, she said.
So we see this continuing on a regular basis.
This is on Sunday.
Israeli forces kill 72 Palestinians in Gaza over 24 hours.
Every day we see this type of thing.
15 more die.
This was an op-ed piece, again, from J.D. Hall.
In it, he talks about how we should view war as Christians.
He says, from Sherman's March to Nagasaki, how Americans learn to forget all about a just war.
He said, evangelicals are still cheering as the bodies are piling up.
It's a tragedy beyond words.
He said, the targeting of a church building in Gaza, at least the fifth time in this conflict that Israel has Struck Christian sites while Christians are meeting has taken place, and it has solicited quite a few comments from evangelicals who are promoting total war.
He says, Total war is a military concept in which a nation mobilizes all available resources toward achieving absolute victory over an enemy, often disregarding the usual constraints of warfare, such as distinctions between combatants and civilians.
It is in contrast with a limited war, where efforts and targets are restricted.
It actually makes my heart ache, he says, to see fellow Christians so woefully uneducated in Christian ethics.
Ethics is different from morality because ethics is situational by nature.
Morality is immutable.
He says, I don't mean that morality changes.
Of course it doesn't.
But ethics are the working out of those immutable moral principles in time and space in certain situations.
So the way he defines it here is that we have a God-given morality, and then we look at it and say, well, in this situation, here's how that morality applies.
We call that ethics.
He said, there was a time that education in Christian ethics was part and parcel to a Christian experience.
It appears, however, to be woefully lacking today because it's common to see evangelicals calling for Gaza to be turned into glass.
He said, there's no better example of the danger of poor Christian education in American churches than its failure to teach its church members the concepts of ethics as it pertains to war.
People are dead, piles and piles of them, because we're ignorant on this topic.
Without evangelical support for the war in Gaza, given our disproportionate political power in the United States, it's unlikely the carnage would have lasted this long.
At least, not with our bombs and our tax dollars.
The Bible itself, of course, says that there is a time for war.
However, this doesn't mean that all war is just.
Neither does it mean that in warfare, all ethics are cast aside.
For the Christian, war is not, as some imagine it, a place without rules.
No, I'm not talking about cumbersome rules of engagement that get our troops killed because they can't fire back without explicit permission.
He says, I'm talking about the ethical considerations of justice in war as taught by St. Augustine.
He said, many evangelicals believe that as soon as war is declared, as though that officially happens anymore, it never does, then a level of violence against any person, in or out of uniform, is fair game.
Probably the same ones who see nothing immoral about torture or the bombing of Christians in Nagasaki.
They act as though God requires nothing of us morally in the middle of a battle.
And by more than one evangelical, I was called naive and ignorant of the demands of modern warfare, as though it's more any more violent than ancient warfare was.
Yeah, you will be called naive and ignorant if you hold up moral principles.
I really do hate that.
He said, the men who built Western civilization carried swords, not only with strength, but with conscience.
And I've got to say, as recently as the 1800s, Travis learned to read using G.A. Hinty books, which, as I've said before, is always done in the context of a real historical event.
One of them actually was the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
But many of them were, there were a lot of battles that you would know, but a lot of them were even small battles that were known to the Victorians, but wouldn't be known to most people today, unless that was, unless you were like a PhD in British history or something like that.
But it would have that context of a real event for the one that took place with the destruction of Jerusalem.
It was called For the Temple, and he referred to the writings of my mind just went blank.
What was the name of the historian?
Josephus.
Josephus, thank you.
Yeah, Josephus.
So he leaned heavily on Josephus's writings.
And we see from contemporary writings how even in a war like that, which is brutal, I mean, it was hand-to-hand combat.
You didn't push a button from a thousand miles away and kill people that you never see their bodies.
No, you were cutting them up hand by hand.
And even in that kind of situation, they followed ethics that we see.
They were not necessarily Christians, but they followed ethics.
They understood those kind of a natural law in a sense.
And when I would read those books, you could see that even the bad guys in the books had the kind of moral clarity that you don't get from the heroes in today's movies or today's novels.
Anyway, he said, the men who built Western civilization carried swords not only with strength, but with conscience.
They believed in boundaries.
They believed in the shadow of Augustine.
They lived rather in the shadow of Augustine's just war theory and of Aquinas' refinement of it.
Christian nations didn't wage war the way that pagans did.
You know, pagans would just have a berserker attack, they'd kill and chop up everything inside.
They knew the sword was not a license for savagery.
Though history has always seen blood and horror, it is also filled with moments when Christian leaders refused to let necessity become an idol.
They fought, but they fought with restraint.
George Washington, for example, understood that winning liberty meant winning it with honor.
Throughout the American Revolution, he repeatedly ordered his troops to show respect to civilians and prisoners.
When his army marched through hostile territories, he insisted they refrain from looting or from mistreating the inhabitants.
In one documented case during the New Jersey campaigns, when soldiers began harassing loyalist sympathizers, Washington did not turn a blind eye.
He demanded they stop and reminded them that their fight wasn't just about independence.
It was about building a nation that was worth living in.
The same restraint shaped the siege of Boston.
Rather than allow his troops to take vengeance on British civilians caught in the crossfire, he permitted a civilian evacuation.
Even though those civilians had supported the crown, he knew that harming the innocent would poison their cause.
Netanyahu could learn from this.
His decisions were shaped by something deeper than politics.
They were shaped by a Christian conscience, trained in the difference between combatants and non-combatants.
During the siege of Malta in 1565, Christian knights faced overwhelming Ottoman forces.
The battle was brutal, the odds were dire, yet the knights of the Order of St. John refused to slaughter prisoners or to desecrate bodies.
Even in moments of desperation, they offered medical aid to wounded Muslim captives.
They stood behind their walls with blood on their faces and bandages in their hands.
Their creed demanded it.
Their honor required it.
And this is, like I said, this is what you'll see if you have kids.
Read them some J. Hinty stories.
They will pick that up.
In 1813, after the Battle of Leipzig, Christian generals from Prussia and Britain did not exact ruthless punishment on the defeated French.
They fed prisoners.
Lutheran pastors opened churches for the wounded.
Those who died were given proper burial and Christian rites.
There was no triumphalism, only duty.
Their actions were not born of sentimentality, but of Christian command.
War might be ugly, but that didn't make cruelty permissible.
I'm going to say one of the things, you know, when I couldn't do much or anything except watch TV, we watched a production of War and Peace that I thought was excellent, and it wasn't very old.
It was maybe, you know, about 2006 or 8, I think.
But watching that, it was a series.
I think it was done by the BBC.
But it was not like a two-hour movie.
It was a series of these things.
It's pretty long.
War in Pieces is famous for being a big book.
And in that, you get a sense of the atrocities of Napoleon and of the bold-faced, ruthless ambition of the man and his disregard, not only for the lives of his own troops, but his disregard, especially for the people that he was invading in Russia.
It is a mixture of war and peace.
It's a mixture of people who are going about trying to live their lives with Napoleon at the gate.
You know, war was moving slowly and they didn't have long-range weapons and that type of thing, but it was always imminent.
It was always the elephant in the room as these people were living their lives.
And I've got to say, you know, Napoleon and his work, many people have done movies about Napoleon and that type of thing, but that movie or that book, I should say, Tolstoy story really gets to the essence of what a monster he was.
And that really is, I thought about that as I'm looking at it.
It's like, you know, that is really what we're seeing now with these people, whether it's Zelensky or whether it is Netanyahu or Trump.
They don't care about any of the people.
They've got this goal.
They want to take territory.
And the whole thing is like a big game of risk to them.
And they don't care how much blood is spilt.
It's just their little game that they're playing.
But getting back to this, the Battle of Leipzig, he said, these examples are not mythical.
They're not romantic glosses over violent times.
As a matter of fact, that's one of the things.
You look at it and you say, well, maybe these Henti books, it's H-E-N-T-Y, by the way, maybe these Henti books were just romanticized.
Well, no, he relies on Josephus' records, which were contemporary with what happened with that.
Anyway, he said, there are hard-won moments when men remembered that war is not an excuse to forget God.
They point to the enduring influence of a worldview that saw every soul as bearing the image of the Creator, even if that soul wore another uniform.
When Western leaders remembered the difference between combatants and innocents, it didn't make them weaker.
It made them stronger.
It gave them moral clarity.
It showed the world that their cause was not conquest, but justice.
It reminded their own troops that they were not beasts, they were men.
And they were Christian men at that.
You see, even when somebody is a combatant in a war, they can show people what Christ is about and his position.
But here we are living in peace, haven't been touched by war, and yet we are showing people a monstrous false impression of what Christ is about.
That's what bothers me about this whole thing.
He says, this is what the modern world has lost.
Today's warfare is ruled by efficiency and detachment.
Buttons are pushed from thousands of miles away.
Collateral damage is calculated like a tax, but our ancestors knew better.
They knew the power to destroy had to be bridled by the wisdom to refrain.
Their stories remind us of what war can be when it is shaped by the cross rather than by the club.
If restraint in war ennobles a civilization, then ruthlessness corrodes it.
Victory is measured, if victory is measured in enemy corpses and cities reduced to rumble.
The abandonment of the just war principles has never won us peace.
It has only left us haunted.
Haunted.
And I've seen reports of a couple of Israeli soldiers who committed suicide.
Perhaps that's because they were haunted by what they saw, what they were commanded to do.
And then he brings it home to American history, going back to William Tecumseh Sherman's march across Georgia in 1864.
He said he wasn't conducting war, he was unleashing terror.
The campaign was designed not simply to defeat Confederate forces, but to break the will of southern civilians through destruction.
Does that sound familiar?
He said, homes were burned, railroads were twisted into grotesque iron sculptures, entire towns were razed, livestock was slaughtered, food stores were torched to starve the population into submission.
Sherman called it, quote, hard war, unquote.
But Christian soldiers of earlier generations would have called it what it was, vengeance against non-combatants.
His march hastened the end of the war, but it also introduced a new moral standard to American warfare, the idea that civilian suffering is an acceptable means to a military end.
Sherman himself was never quite comfortable with what he had done.
He defended it as necessary, but not noble.
And many in the North, even those who supported the Union cause, were disturbed by the brutality.
The legacy of the march became a stain, a reminder that victory without virtue is a hollow triumph.
The 20th century saw even darker departures.
The firebombing of Dresden in 1945, often justified as retribution against the Nazi war machine.
The reality is that Dresden held little strategic value.
It was a cultural city, a city of art and architecture with minimal military installations, yet British and American bombers dropped over 3,900 tons of explosives in just two days.
The result was a firestorm that killed as many as 25,000 civilians, most of them women and children and elderly.
Photos of Dresden afterwards resemble the aftermath of a volcanic eruption.
Streets are unrecognizable.
Churches, libraries, museums, all obliterated.
Survivors described people melting into the pavement or reduced to ash where they stood.
Allied leaders knew the city was no threat, but they bombed it to send a message.
That message was not Christian justice.
The message was total war.
The same pattern repeated itself in Nagasaki.
Few Americans today remember that Nagasaki, the second city hit with a nuclear bomb, was the historical heart of Japanese Christianity, which is notoriously hard to get the Japanese to convert to Christianity because it conflicts with their long-standing culture of ancestor worship.
So basically, Christianity was pretty much unknown outside of the city of Nagasaki and outside of the church that was basically ground zero for the second nuclear bomb.
It was home to the largest Christian community in Japan, including the famous Yurakami Cathedral.
When the bomb detonated over the city, it vaporized that cathedral along with thousands of faithful believers who were gathered inside for confession.
Of all the cities that could have been targeted, why did they target that one?
Defenders of bombings often repeat the mantra that they ended the war.
Well, as I said before, you know, if you got a nuclear bomb, they said, well, you couldn't go from island to island fighting people.
Well, you could have dropped a nuclear bomb on this one island, on the combatants, and another one on more combatants, and that would have had the same message.
And you would have not been coming after civilians.
Truman's own diary entries show that he knew that Japan was near collapse.
Yet, instead of pursuing conditional peace, the U.S. chose to drop a new, terrifying weapon on civilian centers and do it twice.
The moral consequences of those decisions linger even now.
The results were not decisive victories born of brutal realism.
They were psychological scars.
They undermined our claim to moral authority, and the world remembers not only our triumphs, but our atrocities.
Those atrocities have a way of justifying more evil down the line.
If civilians can be burned to end a war, why not torture prisoners to start one?
Or to prevent one, right?
That is the poison of pragmatism, unmoored from righteousness.
Every time the West has tried to shortcut Christian ethics for the sake of expedience, it has paid a heavy price.
Whether in Sherman's Trail of Fire, or the charred bodies of Dresden, or the ruins of Nagasaki, or the cages of Gitmo, we have seen what happens when the sword forgets the sheath.
These are not victories.
They are funerals for our conscience.
None of these actions were necessary to win.
Just war theory is not idealistic fluff.
It is the scaffolding that has held together Christian civilizations' approach to conflict for centuries.
It recognizes that war, when it must be fought, must still honor God.
And it demands proportionality.
It demands that you not attack non-combatants.
And it demands that your primary goal is to stop the war.
We don't see that from any of our politicians.
When those principles are followed, even war can bear witness to the gospel.
When they are abandoned, the gospel is mocked.
And we become like those that we claim to fight.
Too many evangelicals today cheer for war as if it were a football game.
We were never told to win at all costs.
We were told to stand for righteousness.
This is not about pacifism.
It's about justice.
It's about refusing to become monsters that we fight.
What is happening in Gaza is no longer a war.
It is not a conflict, nor a campaign, nor a military operation in any meaningful sense.
What is happening in Gaza is slaughter, mechanized carnage, digitally guided obliteration, and the coldly efficient erasure of an entire people under the pretense of defense.
Trump is gleeful about the commercial real estate prospects.
How reprehensible can this guy get?
Over 37,000 Gazans have been confirmed dead, the majority of them women and children.
By UN estimates, more than 70% of the casualties are civilian.
Entire neighborhoods are gone, and the hunger is not incidental either.
Israel's defense minister said it plainly.
He said, quote, we are putting Gaza under siege.
No electricity, no food, no water.
They didn't say they were targeting Hamas.
They said they were starving Gaza.
And they have.
The American conscience is numb, lulled into silence by euphemisms like surgical strike or collateral damage or precision munitions.
In 1945, when the U.S. dropped bombs on Nagasaki, the weight of that moral horror was felt even by its architects.
Scientists wept.
Chaplains broke down.
Decades of post-war literature explored the shame.
It was not repeated.
But in Gaza, we repeat it every week.
And not in war against an empire or a nuclear power, but against a captive people in a walled ghetto.
This is not war, it is overkill.
And it is a theological affront to every Christian principle of just war.
Every bomb is signed with our taxes.
Every death echoes.
And as Brian Shulhave points out, the U.S. evangelicals are calling for Christians now to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel.
Not because of the way that this massacre has been conducted, but because they are not, they're preventing Christians from visiting the so-called Holy Land.
I got to say, land is not holier than the people who are created in God's image.
And that's all people.
And that's the thing that bothers me about this.
Huckabee has had a lot of tours to the Holy Land since the 1980s.
He has taken more than 100, led more than 100 tours to Israel.
And he gets paid several thousand dollars by each person that's in the tour.
In 2024, his Holy Land tour started with a base price of $5,850 with upgrades available for an additional $7,000 with a maximum cost of $12,850.
Now all of a sudden, Huckabee is changing its tune about how wonderful Israel is because they're cutting that off.
It's becoming widely known that the settlers are not just attacking Palestinian Muslims by taking their land, destroying their buildings, and killing their livestock.
These Israeli Zionist settlers are doing the same thing to Palestinian Christians.
Even worse for Huckabee, Israel is reportedly not giving out visas anymore to evangelical Christians and their missionaries.
So Huckabee and other evangelical Christians in Trump's administration are crying foul.
They're actually calling for Christians in the U.S. to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel.
Just like pro-Palestinian groups in the U.S. are doing it, but they're doing it for the genocide, not because you cut off our vacation tours.
Listen to the disgraced former Congressman Matt Gates give the same arguments to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel that the pro-Palestinian groups use.
You can't make this stuff up.
And yet, look at the difference in their motivations for doing this.
It truly is amazing.
And so we're going to leave it at this point right here.
I just have to say that we can talk about, and many people want to know, what I think.
It doesn't really matter what I think.
It matters what the Bible says.
You need to work that out yourself.
I'm not going to sit here and talk about things that are very divisive.
I want people to understand, first of all, there is a God.
Secondly, he has spoken to us.
And thirdly, that this cheering of war is diametrically antithetical to what he told us.
And it couldn't be further removed.
And I think people are far too concerned about what is going to happen on this earth politically with wars and all the rest of stuff in the future.
To me, it almost borders on a kind of occultism.
You know, we want to read the future.
That's not the purpose of this.
And I would say this.
You know, the famous passage where Jesus said, you'll know them by their fruits.
What was he talking about?
He was talking about false prophets, false teachers.
He said, you'll know these wolves among the sheep by the fruit that their teaching brings.
If your teaching, if your eschatology gets you to cheer the mass murder and starvation of women and children, perhaps you need to take a closer look at your theology and your predictions that are there.
And so this is one person, thank you for sending this to me, Ryan, for the love of the road.
He said, somebody on one of the platforms, a telegram, so I'd like to know if you believe in replacement theology, that the church replaces Israel in end times eschatology.
Well, what I want to do is I want to stop evangelicals from replacing Christ with Israel, with a political entity, because that's what I see happening here.
So that's basically my answer in a nutshell.
I'm not interested in getting people on to argue over this theology.
I want them to look not so much as to what's going to happen to the church in the near future or to Israel in the near future.
I want you to think about eternity that is before you.
It's really simple.
It's very childlike.
That's why you see people writing John 3.16 all over the place, right?
Whosoever believes has eternal life.
Whosoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the only way.
You're not going to get your way to heaven by having your eschatology right or your theology right or your obedience perfect.
Those are never going to be good enough.
The good news, and it is good news, why wouldn't we focus on that?
The good news is that you can know that you have eternal life and you should know that and you should work that out.
Be focused on that and be focused on trying to show the love of Christ to people.
Well, thank you for joining us.
I'll turn this back over to Travis.
Travis.
Thank you.
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I don't support Islam.
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We cover it quite frequently on the show, but that's because that's the way the world is going.
It's becoming more and more cyberpunk and not in the fun neon lights kind of way.
More in the everything is depressing kind of way.
Wild video shows robot changing its own battery.
The robot developed by Ubitech can swap its battery packs in under a minute.
We've actually got a video of that right here.
So we're going to take a look at that.
And I'll narrate it for our listeners.
You see this little humanoid robot taking its walk around.
It's approaching a battery station.
It rotates.
It bends slightly.
It's got a very dramatic terminator walk.
Yeah.
Dung, dung, dung.
It grabs its own battery, pulls it out, very, very slowly, slots it into the charging station.
And it, of course, grabs the next one down and puts it back in.
And there we go.
Self-sustaining robot.
Isn't that great?
Very slow to do this.
I'll have you know that all I require to maintain is coffee and perhaps a hamburger from time to time, and I can probably eat a hamburger in that amount of time.
I'd like to see a robot eat a cheeseburger with my alacrity.
Now that's when I know I'm out of a job.
Of course, this is just the beginning of things.
This is...
You look at it and you go, okay, so what?
But this is where everything is going.
They want these sorts of things because they're tired of having the people in the warehouse.
They're tired of having to put up with human workers.
They want a 24-7 workforce that they don't have to pay.
And of course, as I've said before, it's not about getting it perfect.
It's about getting it good enough.
Once the cost-benefit analysis works out in their favor, they'll do it.
It doesn't matter if the robots are slightly less accurate or less efficient in certain ways.
If they're able to make more money by hiring robots, they'll put up with those.
They'll pass that nonsense onto the consumer.
That video, to me, it doesn't really signify much because, well, first of all, it's kind of an obvious thing to have two batteries and be able to switch out one But secondly, when you saw how it moved, it was very, well, robotic.
But everything was clearly a slow, pre-calculated, pre-programmed movement.
For these things to be useful, they need to be able to understand their environment and adapt to it.
That just looked like it had some pre-set movements programmed in.
Yeah, also, if you'll notice that the, as far as I can tell, the hands actually changed from shot to shot.
You know, one, it has the little actual human-looking appendages, and then it has these kind of spoons or flat panels to grab the battery and slot it.
And I'm curious if, you know, it swaps appendages, if the regular hands roll back or something and those are exposed, or if they did a robot swap at some point and there's two different robots on display, two separate models that maybe have different capacities.
I'm curious.
And again, this is Chinese company Ubitech recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot, contorting its arms, to hot swap one of its battery packs.
And to say that I am skeptical of anything that comes out of China is an understatement.
The Chinese, it is a buyer-beware market in China.
It's almost seen as a duty to try to scam you.
It's one of those cultures where they talk with big, flowery words and high language about honor and nobility, and then do everything they can to stab you in the back.
It's a bit of a dichotomy.
The 95-pound automaton could technically work 24 hours a day, an integral part of fully automated dark factories.
They never need to keep the lights on.
Again, this is what they want.
They want this 24-7 workforce that they can keep running.
Ubidex batteries take only 90 minutes to fully recharge, and the Walker S2 can walk for two hours or stand for four hours.
And it's not some distant future.
The companies are already beginning to staff their warehouses and factories with humanoid bots, heralding a machine-dominated future, and accelerating the timeline toward a point when conventional factory worker jobs become obsolete.
Yeah.
They, as I've said, they want to out-mode humanity.
They're tired of paying for the workforce.
They're tired of the complaints.
They're tired of having to deal with them.
Robots aren't going to form a union.
They're not going to demand better pay or better working conditions.
The days of factory-based grunt work could be numbered, they say.
That's.
Yeah, it is numbered.
Don't know when it'll be done away with, but it's more around the bend than too far to see.
It is going to happen.
Most likely in my lifetime.
Soon enough that you can't ignore it anymore.
Of course, once they start replacing them in factories, they'll be replacing quite a lot of other jobs besides factory.
We've got this picture here.
And this is another thing that they're engaged with.
It's not simply all the time that it is an autonomous robot right now, but they have sort of remote.
It looks like slave labor.
I'm sure.
I hope this man is being paid a reasonable amount.
But he sits in a chair with his VR goggles and controllers, and the robot goes out into the shop and restocks shelves.
Does the job.
And he can do that from his own home, I assume.
I assume that via the internet, you don't have to be in store.
And this is the same sort of thing that we saw in California with the city.
With the Tesla diner.
They have somebody manning these robots.
They had a guy serving popcorn through a remote robot.
Which all it did was make it very, very slow.
Very, very slow.
But things are moving quicker.
Well, yeah, it's slow, but then they can hire someone from India and pay them $3.75 an hour or less.
Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about when I say once the cost-benefit analysis works in their favor, once they're making enough money that they can put up with the number of people that will be annoyed by this, when the complaints don't outweigh the benefits to them, is when they're going to fully turn this on, switch over to it.
It's going to happen.
They can, as Lance said, have some Indian working for 375 or some other ludicrously low number serving you popcorn through a robot, and it'll work for them.
It doesn't matter that the robot moves much, much slower, that it's a hassle to deal with, just so long as it's not so much of a hassle that it turns off a majority of their consumer base.
Doesn't matter if it's a hassle so long as they can hire someone who isn't American and will work for slave labor.
Let's take a look at what they're saying about the robot big bang, though.
AI is moving forward and as is robotics.
The CEO of NVIDIA just told me that everything that moves will be robotic someday.
And it will be soon.
By robots, he means humanoid ones, but also self-driving cars and smart buildings and automated warehouses.
Most people are always a bit too optimistic.
The reason he believes that is because companies like NVIDIA are changing the way robots are trained.
It's like they're creating the matrix, but for robots.
Let me explain.
The matrix, but for robots, real world, where they often need human supervision and damage or wear down.
Or we've gotten limited training data, like from humans in motion capture suits, which makes robot training costly and slow.
But now, companies are building tools to train robots through simulation.
Basically, a virtual world where a robot can get digital reps, which lets us run hundreds, thousands, or even millions of simulations in a fraction of the time.
Which makes me think that we are in a big bang moment right now for robotics.
And there you go.
That is the video version of the picture.
Aw, look, it's a cute little robot.
Her name is Greg.
Greg is a little girl.
Greg learned how to walk inside Omniverse, obeying the laws of physics.
And so you learn how to walk in the virtual world.
And look at you now.
Can you jump?
Oh boy, it did a little hop.
Oh, it's happy.
It's proud.
This is how they sell people on this sort of thing.
Look, it's a cute little robot, and they know that people will anthropomorphize just about anything.
That's the cute little robot that's going to be hunting you down coming to the revolution.
Hey, you know what we should do?
Let's take a picture of everybody.
Let's take a picture of everybody and send it to DARPA.
Damn.
Use your facial recognition software and track if anyone has outstanding warrants.
Call the police.
Alert the authorities right now.
Seal the doors.
That's coming in the future.
But right now, it's just this cute little robot.
It's so fun.
It does a little hop.
It does a little jump.
This is from the Wall Street Journal.
Why Amazon wants an AI bracelet that records everything you say.
After a decade of Amazon saying Alexa isn't listening to your every word, the company is buying a bracelet that can.
Bees Wearable transcribes all the conversations in your day, including when you talk to yourself.
Then uses artificial intelligence to turn that giant word soup into a searchable history, offering up key events and even to-do lists based on your chatter.
Remember when they said, who thought that these idiots would line up and pay for Big Brother?
That's what they're doing again.
That's what they're going to do again.
Look at this wearable tech.
It listens to your every word.
It listens to all your conversations.
It puts them into a big text document that's easily searchable.
Isn't that wonderful?
We'll have all our conversations cataloged.
And of course, eventually, it'll be sent off to the data centers.
The government will have access to everything you say.
Every word of yours will be noted down.
They'll make sure to sift through it.
The AIs will check for anything that might be problematic, that might be an issue.
Oh, did you say something that was anti-government?
Did you say something that could be construed as violent?
Uh-oh.
Guess we're gonna have to send some cops to do a wellness check on you.
Guess we're gonna have to send the robotic SWAT team in.
Don't worry, they'll be gentle.
KWD68, does the robot know what to do when the battery catches on fire?
Danger, danger.
That's right.
Danger, Will Robinson.
Your battery, your lithium-ion battery has combusted and it's not gonna go out.
Nights of the storm.
So battery change is kind of like a lunch break.
I had jobs where my lunch break was shorter than that battery change time.
You've got to shovel that food in real fast.
I thankfully have a...
You're not given the five minutes to shovel down your food and get back to work.
Hi, Boost.
Can a robot get my fast food order correct?
We'll find out.
From my experiences, they probably couldn't do worse than the people that take your order at this point.
For some reason, fast food workers seem to have a vendetta against me.
Anytime I go there, I have problems.
To be fair, I don't go to fast food very frequently.
Well, the thing is, it's not going to be the robots or AIs taking the order, at least not for a while.
It's going to be someone from India.
In fact, I believe there was a fast food chain that did do that as a test run at a remote.
I'm pretty sure you're right.
Part of me hopes it was Taco Bell, because the irony of Indian selling me Mexican fast food would be really hilarious.
Knights of the Storm, what happens when the robot has a freak out moment?
Does the operator get a seizure?
Yeah, just start spinning the head relentlessly, causing all kinds of issues.
Alien poop evolution, how to train your robot.
Yeah, you can see a robot having a little seizure right here.
Let me out!
Let me out!
These people are crazy.
They're trying to kill me.
*Squeak*
Poor man is startled, putting his hands on his heads.
He can't believe what's happening.
Pose of Ante 1776.
That thing had me grabbing for my Mossberg shotgun with an itchy trigger finger.
Yeah, it's kind of like that line from Narnia where they're saying if you find something that seems human but isn't, keep an eye on it.
Or is going to be human and isn't yet.
Yeah, they're trying to make these things more and more human.
And all of these little wiggles and cutesy expressions are just it trying to fool us.
Yeah, it's unnerving.
Trump signs three AI-related executive orders at AI Summit.
And as I said at the beginning of the show, MAGA was always incensed, and rightfully so, when Obama and Biden ruled by executive order, ruled by dictate.
Well, Trump, they're kind of just like, ah, well, you know, he's doing it for the good of the country, right?
He's here to help.
He's here to save us.
President Donald Trump signed three executive orders related to artificial intelligence following his remarks at an AI summit in Washington, D.C. The first order, accelerating federal permitting of data center infrastructure, aims to fast-track the building of data center infrastructure.
Per White House fact sheet, Commerce Secretary Howard Luttnick, lucky Lutnick at again, is directed to launch an initiative to provide financial support such as loans, grants, and tax incentives for qualifying products.
That's right.
They're going to pick winners.
And of course, they're not going to pick them based on who their friends are, who's donated the most to their campaigns.
I'm sure it'll be completely merit-based.
That might be the one saving grace.
Maybe these people won't be competent.
Maybe they'll be idiots since they aren't going to use a merit-based system.
Data centers that require greater than 100 megawatts.
The second order, promoting the export of the American AI technology stack.
What this next executive order will do is promote through various instrumentalities of the federal government the export abroad of American AI models to ensure American AI dominance in the future.
That's great.
We're going to ensure American AI dominance.
Can't have a mine shaft gap here.
We're going to export the models, what, by putting them up on GitHub?
That's right.
Come download our AI models.
In the White House, this is from the White House.
The order directs agency heads to procure only large language models that adhere to unbiased AI principles defined in the order truth seeking.
I'm sure maybe Donald Trump will call it truth AI.
Won't that be great?
And, you know, truth will be whatever the AI says it is.
You can actually play some of the video from this article.
So let's go ahead and take a look at what they're saying.
We'll see.
Whether we like it or not, we're suddenly launched in a fast-paced competition to build and define this groundbreaking technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization itself because of the genius and creativity of Silicon Valley.
And it is incredible, incredible genius.
Without question, the most brilliant place anywhere on earth.
America is the country that started.
Trump stressed the importance of the United States winning the artificial intelligence race during the event.
Well, when it comes to artificial intelligence, no one is more artificial than Donald Trump.
The plan has three main pillars, accelerating innovation, building out AI infrastructure, making U.S. hardware and software the standard for AI.
That's great.
Once more, we're going to be exporting horrors across the globe.
Some have criticized the Trump AI plan for prioritizing the interests of big tech over privacy advocates and labor organizations that have issues with the plan.
Coalition of privacy advocates, labor unions, and others wrote to Trump on Wednesday saying the plan should not move to set a moratorium on AI regulation.
Enshrining AI protection leaves millions of Americans more vulnerable to existing threats described above, such as discrimination, and all of us exposed to the unpredictable safety risks posed by this nascent industry.
Josh Hawley said that Meta and other AI companies have willfully pirated droves of copyrighted content to train its AI models.
Yeah, all of them are trained on whatever they can scour off the internet.
They just hoover it all up.
That being said, those in favor of the AI action plan believe that it is imperative to have dynamic deregulation policies in place to outperform China and other nations on artificial intelligence.
So they need to out-innervate our competitors, says Michael Krastios.
That's right.
We're going to out-innovate them in the realms of technology that will be used to suppress and repress peoples.
It's going to be great.
We're going to have the biggest and best data centers, the biggest and best data network that catalogs everything you do and say.
The biggest and best.
That's what we want, right?
The biggest and best empire the world has ever seen.
Trump releases AI action plan, national security imperative for technological dominance.
Yeah, but this is going to be dominance of the American people by the federal government.
This is going to completely and utterly...
That's always been the sticking point.
They've been able to siphon off an enormous amount of metadata.
So much so that they couldn't do anything with it.
It was too much.
It was unusable from the sheer amount.
But this will make sure that they have the ability to parse through it.
Well, we have our guest, Gerald Salente.
And of course, Gerald has the trends journal.
You can go to trendsjournal.com.
And if you use promo code night, you get 10% off, and it works out to $2.50 a week.
But we're going to talk with Gerald Salente.
I want to see what's on his mind.
I want to see how he sees things going.
What with the move towards stablecoins and CBDCs, as well as what's going on with the war in Gaza and in the Middle East in general.
So stay with us.
We write back, and I'll be joined by Gerald Salente.
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Joining me now is Gerald Salente of Trends Journal.
And as I said before, you can go to trendsjournal.com with promo code night, you get 10% off of the trends journal.
It works out to $2.50 a week.
And you can't get that kind of value for money just about anywhere else.
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So thank you for joining us, Gerald.
Really do appreciate it.
How have you been?
I'm all right.
You know, very sad about everything that's going on.
Been at this a lot of years, 45 years, and I've never saw things.
You're talking about, you know, the Trends Journal.
And again, everybody, you know, we're doing everything we can to support you.
So you support us, or else you could do this.
You could spend $5 to get the Sunday New York Times.
They call themselves the paper record.
I call themselves the toilet paper record.
Look at this stupid big picture.
Look at this stupid...
Business section.
Brett Cooper wants to steer pop culture rightward.
Look at the way this clown is dressed.
What do you come out of the mine?
You know, you get sneakers and a crummy.
Women used to dress up beautiful at one time.
Now they wear baseball hats.
And the guys wear them backwards so they can put their catches mask on.
Now, look at the decline of America.
Here, you ready?
When your child becomes your safety net.
This is the business section.
What are you telling me this crap for?
Yeah, look at this.
You can't make this stuff up.
Look, look, look.
Look.
$5.
$5 for this stupid, not one trendworthy business article in here.
It's so sad.
Journalism is dead.
And you know why journalism is dead?
This is a t-shirt I did back in 1992 when Bill Clinton was running for office.
Beware of Slick Willie.
This is a little slime ball.
Oh, I got to be careful.
I may get sued for calling him a slime ball.
You hear what just happened?
That guy, that little catso, Macron, they're suing this woman for saying that his wife is a man.
You imagine getting sued for that?
So don't call Macron's old lady a drag queen, and don't claim that Macrone has a pekka the size of his pencil if he has one, or else you get sued.
So don't say that.
Be careful.
So going back to Slick Willie, this is the guy that gave us the Federal Communications Act in 1996 that deregulated the communications industry.
Back in the day, like if you owned a television station or something, you couldn't own a TV station and the same, a newspaper or something like that.
They had a lot of restrictions.
There were thousands of independent radio stations, TV stations, and newspapers.
Now six companies control 92% of America's media.
And all they are are prostitutes, media whores that get paid to put out by the corporate pimps and government whoremasters.
So we're giving you in the Trends Journal what nobody else has given you in the world.
What is it?
This week's over 200 pages.
From high-tech science to AI, you're talking about AI, whole sections.
Technocracy, geopolitics, economics, on and on.
And you read what you want.
That's a magazine.
And you can read it online.
You can listen to it.
You can print out the PDF, whatever.
And you were talking before about AI.
One of our trends is dot-com bus 2.0.0.
China's going to lead the world in AI.
Again, let's go, in tracking trends, you make connections between different fields.
We say opportunity misses those who view the world through the eyes of their profession.
So if you're a doctor and you know anything about health, but you don't know anything about the economy, if you're an economist and you know anything about geopolitics, grow up.
Go back to Bill Clinton.
In the year 2000, 10% of Chinese 18-year-olds went to college.
10%.
Today, nearly 70%.
What does that have with AI?
Everything.
Everybody in the world, particularly young people, are high-tech AI addicted.
It's their life.
They got all these kids going to college.
In America, what do you go to college for?
You get your degree in gender studies?
No, I got one in art history, all right?
They're not doing that over there.
They're getting degrees in engineering and high-tech, on and on and on.
Let's go back to January this year.
DeepSeek comes out.
DeepSeek?
What's a DeepSeek?
Oh, a Chinese company that didn't cost $100 million to make their AI.
It only cost them $6 million.
Oh, and they don't need those big NVIDIA chips.
They use smaller ones.
Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age, and die.
You don't invest in the one that's just born.
And that's what it is.
It's only three years old, 2022.
So they've overinvested in the IPOs, the IPO wannabes, and a lot of the tech giants in AI in America.
What Trump is doing with AI, yeah, fine.
But no, we're not going to lead the world in it.
China is.
Just like, again, go back to Slick Willie, brought him into the World Trade Organization.
Remember, 2000, 10%.
They come in officially two weeks after 9-11.
And now Chinese economy is booming.
Let's go back to what it looked like before Bill Clinton brought them into the World Trade Organization.
The GDP from 1970 to 2000 was like that.
They come in in 2001, it shoots straight up.
Who's the world leader in electric vehicles?
Oh, China.
Who's the biggest exporter of products?
Oh, China.
Let's go back to 2000.
It wasn't like that.
Why?
Because they didn't have the high-tech manufacturing or the heavy industry manufacturing that the Western nations brought them when they went to China to get cheap labor so they could make more money.
Oh, this is the slick willy they gave us NAFTA.
Get them jobs out of America.
Bring it down to Mexico.
You get cheap labor.
You make more money.
All right.
Look up.
See how much Bill Clinton is worth.
Him and Hitler.
Look it up.
What, $20,000, $130 million?
What are you kidding me?
How about payoffs?
How about he BSs like the Goldman Sachs and he gets like $300,000 for an hour's talk?
These are all payoffs.
Yeah.
All payoffs.
What on earth could Bill Clinton know enough about to warrant that kind of payment?
What does Bill Clinton know about anything that you can bring him in and have him speak on besides potentially sexually assaulting women?
Like, what could he teach anyone about anything?
And then there's the fact with China, you know, we're being hamstrung by all this green nonsense.
Oh, we want windmills.
We want solar power.
And they get to keep their coal power plants.
They get to build more coal power plants.
They get to build whatever kind of energy generation they want.
we're continually shoved down and China gets to maintain and build more infrastructure and better infrastructure.
And there's...
It's.
Amtrak.
How about Amcrap?
It's a third world rail system.
I don't know how it is where you live.
Potholes everywhere.
Everywhere.
Go into New York City.
You need a tank.
There are potholes everywhere.
The country's rotting in front of our eyes, and we've got a bunch of rotten pieces of crap running it.
Oh, how about Obama?
How about the Nobel Peace of Crap Prize winner?
Oh, how did he get there?
Oh, was that guy, Pritzker?
Oh, that big fat slob from the Hyatt family that brought him in.
Look how much, look how much a little nothing of a clown boy Obama is worth.
A little nothing.
Oh, and Pritzker's sister was in all they did, the Clinton things and the Obama things?
Yeah.
It's one big club and you ain't in it, as George Collins said.
Yeah, it's just this continual back and forth.
I refer to it as an Ouroboros.
It just feeds back into itself over and over.
These people, they get into government, they sell favors.
They help others get into government who sell favors.
And on and on and back and forth it goes.
People are angry at me because I get angry.
Why, how dare you get angry?
I'm still in kindergarten and I listen to my teacher.
All right?
And I follow what any stupid, ignorant, moronic politician tells me what to do.
I'm a Republican.
I'm a Democrat.
I'm a conservative.
I'm a liberal.
I got a mind that big.
All right?
Listen to this.
St. Thomas Aquinas emphasizes that anger is fundamentally one of the passions of the soul.
And like other passions, it is part of human nature and has an appropriate role to play in the human pursuit of good when directed by reason.
Oh, you mean I'm angry because of the slaughter of the Palestinians every day for bombing the place into ruin?
Why, how dare you be angry, you anti-Semite?
All right?
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral.
Why?
Because anger looks to the good of justice.
And if you could live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
St. Thomas Aquinas.
So go tell St. Thomas Aquinas to go screw himself, all right?
What does he know?
You know everything.
I watch Fox.
I watch MSNBC.
I listen to NPR.
I got a brain that big.
To me, it's like, you know, they always see anger as the guy that comes home and dinner's not ready, so he decides, oh, I'm going to beat my wife and kids.
But anger can also be the man that sees that and becomes enraged by that behavior, that becomes angry at that, that points that anger towards justice.
It's not simply, you know, an unreasonable anger over nothing used for simple violence.
It can be pointed towards, as you said, justice.
And it's not immoral, as you said, to become angry when you witness injustice.
No.
Again, look what's going on with the Palestinians.
Oh, now they didn't do a peace deal.
Why, those dirty Hamas.
How about what the peace deal is?
Oh, 60, they want a permanent ceasefire and want Israel to leave.
Why?
How dare you say that?
How dare you say that?
We're the chosen people.
We could kill anybody we want.
And listen to Naomi Wolf, a Jewish woman, saying that's a lot of crap about this chosen people.
That's a lie.
God says the chosen people are people that live in the passion of what God believes-you know, peace, justice, love, and spirit, and has nothing to do with religions.
Again, look what's going on.
Where's the anger of this?
Where's the anger?
Hey, oh no.
Let's talk about Epstein.
That's the cover of the magazine, by the way, this week.
Public opinion.
Outraged that Trump won't release Epstein files.
No outrage that Trump supports Israeli genocide.
I do see more people than I would have in the past upset by this.
I do see some, like a shift in public sentiment, but it's not to the extent that you would think.
It's still on the fringe of society, which is hard to believe.
And we've got articles like this here from Anti-War from a few days ago, but it says, you know, Israeli forces kill 130 Palestinians in Gaza, and that's just over 24 hours.
I know.
Look, it's in your trends journal.
Article after article after article.
Israel bombs...
Israel issues additional evacuation orders as it ramps up offensive in Gaza.
And then we have the Gaza death toll each week.
They're killing people, killing like 170, 80 people going for food.
They're starving to death.
They're starving to death.
Where's the outrage?
Oh, you're not allowed to say it.
You get blacklisted.
It's terrible.
Yeah, this is from anti-war.
I go to anti-war.com too.
They do a great job.
According to Axios, Hamas has asked for more Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange for Israeli captives.
You ready?
Including 2,000 Palestinians who have been abducted in Gaza since October 7, 2023, instead of the 1,200 that the U.S. and Israel proposed.
The two sides, you ready?
Have also been at odds over the amount of territory Israel will occupy.
You got no right to occupy any of this.
Oh, what, don't you know?
God told Abraham 3,500 years ago that this land...
Joy never spoke to anybody else.
I got to believe you, fairy tale.
Anyway, it goes on.
The amount of territory Israel will occupy as Israel is refusing to withdraw its forces back to the positions it held during the short-term ceasefire deal that was signed in January 2025.
That's not any hardly, hardly, all they're doing is blaming Hamas.
Trump came out and criticized Hamas today for not taking the deal.
And now let's go back, go back, go back three weeks ago.
Day after day after day, Trump said, she's fire is going to happen in Israel.
She's fire is going to happen in Israel.
No, she's fire.
Oh, this is a Trump.
Hey, hey, hey, you elect me.
You left me.
I'm going to make Ukraine war in 24 hours.
All right?
All right.
Hey, hey, now that I'm elected, once I get into office, even before I get into office, that war is going to end.
All right.
Oh, and how about the general, the former general Kellogg?
Yeah, Kellogg crispy flakes.
The Ukraine war is going to end 100 days after Trump gets into office.
Now you shut up and you listen to me.
I'm a general.
I like to kill people.
Look at the freaks.
Look at the freaks.
Yeah.
We have a comment here from DG8.
It's that people voted for Trump because it was like giving the middle finger to the establishment like Graham, Shapiro, Rubio, Bush, and Cruz.
Now that's who Trump's aligned with.
Yeah.
It's become increasingly clear.
This man is simply another establishment shill.
He'll go along.
Evil man.
By his deeds you shall know him.
He lied his way in as a peace president, bombs the way over Yemen, bombs away over Iran, giving our money, stealing our money to keep the genocide going in Gaza.
And attacking anybody that comes out against it.
Anyone that stands up to him and says, I don't support what you're doing, he threatens to primary.
He does everything he can to get rid of them.
It's all about his own personal petty vendettas and his own ego.
Ready?
This is from Middle East Monitor yesterday.
Israel allocates additional $247 million for West Bank settlement projects.
Wait, we give Israel, thanks to Obama the Nobel Peace of Crap Prize winner, almost $4 billion a year.
Our money.
$4 billion.
Again, as our country's riding in front of us.
Occupied territory?
Settlements?
These aren't settlements.
These are land stealers.
These are invaders.
Why don't you use the right word?
Oh, in violation of the Geneva Convention.
And you and Article 242?
Oh, no, they're settlers.
Stealing more land.
They drove 40,000 over the last three months.
They drove 40,000 Palestinian people out of their homes in the West Bank.
40,000.
Could you imagine if there were Jewish people that got thrown out?
Oh, my God, how terrible.
And again, I want to make this 1,000% clear.
Three of my last four girls' friends were Jewish.
Every day, I have pictures over here of my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles.
I thank them for everything they gave me.
I'm only me because of them.
And I have pictures of all my past friends, not all of them, but I thank everyone of my friends that passed away.
And I thank Al Balad, Bert Feinson, Jesse Reimer, Mr. and Mrs. Singer, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenblatt, Herbie Strauss, Harold Urich.
Jewish people in my life that have been so kind and loving to me.
Had nothing to do with religion.
Had nothing to do with this crap.
I'm tired of hearing it.
Yeah.
The kindest people in my life were Jewish people.
A lot of other people were kind too.
But I'm saying they really made a difference in my life and were so good to me.
And so I don't want to hear this crap.
Oh, if I hate Mussolini as an Italian, I guess I'm anti-Italian.
That's right.
To me, it's so incredibly obvious that you're not out here railing against Jews.
You're out here pointing out the evils of a government, a tyrannical government that Benjamin Netanyahu is in charge of.
He's doing evil in the world.
He is committing evil acts.
It's not about sitting there and saying, oh, we want to get rid of all the Jews.
It's about saying, Benjamin Netanyahu's government is committing a genocide, and that needs to stop.
That's wickedness.
That's evil.
You're not out there on the street railing, you come across a Hasidic Jew in New York and you start screaming at him.
That's not what this is about.
And it's just this continual, anytime you question Israel, it's seen as an attack on the people themselves and not on the policies that they espouse, which is what this is.
We even have this article here where Trump's own administration are saying he's a madman.
Trump's team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes, even people within the Trump administration.
Hey, that's, that isn't, I think that's hype.
I think that's a lot of hype.
They kept saying it and saying it, and Netanyahu comes over to visit Trump.
They're trying to make it seem like that.
I don't believe a word of it.
He's supporting him 1,000%.
Listen to the things he says about Netanyahu.
Don't forget to pull out the chair and help him sit down, right?
Yeah, to me, that's hype.
All hype.
Yeah.
To me, I could see one or two maybe individuals in there that are worried about the appearances of things, but I don't see them ever doing anything to stop it.
We know which way the influence flows, that Israel is the one who is calling the shots.
If America had any real pull, it would have stopped by now.
We would have just pulled the plug on the support.
It's certainly Israel's calling the shots.
AIPAC is calling the shots.
The Ackmans, all the billionaires that are given money for it, that's shutting everybody else up.
It's not only Israel, it's the Jewish lobby.
And they control the media.
Oh, who owns the New York Times?
One after another.
Careful, Gerald.
You're sounding mighty anti-Semitic for pointing out these known facts.
That's one of the things that's always gotten me.
You point out the amount of influence APAC wields, the donations they give and the policies they espouse, and you go, well, what are you?
Anti-Semitic?
No, I think perhaps Americans and America should decide for itself what we want to do with our own country.
I don't think it's in our best interests to be beholden to this foreign power and do whatever they want and say.
But.
You know, I launched Occupy Peace.
I rallies.
Your dad was up here.
I'm for peace.
Now, how about one of you billionaires giving us some money for peace?
Warren Buffett's son was one of my tenants in my building over here, the 1763 Dr. Jensen house.
He never gave me a penny for peace.
I had Ralph Nader up here.
Top people.
Never gave me a penny.
Matter of fact, he never even would say hello to me.
I'm only a little guinea from the Bronx.
You know, why should he say hello to me?
A little whop like me.
Hey, don't you know my father is?
Don't you know my father is?
An arrogant nothing.
With a bad attitude, man.
Not a penny from the billionaires.
Not a penny.
Not a penny for peace.
We're going to have a rally, by the way, September 27th.
September 27th.
Here in Kingston.
So go to occupypeace.com, occupypeace.com, and try to get up here.
We're doing everything we can.
So far, Judge Napolitano and Scott Ritter are going to be here.
When we went up there for the event, it was just wonderful to be there.
There were so many people of like mind.
And it was just, you know, it was a good time.
It's nice to be surrounded with people that you can coalesce around an idea with.
It's nice to be able to go there and support something that is a truly good movement.
It's so very rare these days.
You know, you'll get these political events, you know, these, oh, we're going to go support the GOP.
Who cares?
Why would I do that?
Peace is something that benefits everyone, that everyone should be in support of.
And it's, it's, I know it's not a gimmick for you.
It's not something that you're doing to try to, oh, I'm going to sit here and I'll put on this event and it'll make me a bunch of money.
No, this is because you truly care about it.
This is not some tactic to try to scam or grift people.
And it's because you care so deeply about these issues, as everyone should.
And I do encourage people, if you can get to Occupy Peace, it's worth going.
It's fun, and it's for a good cause.
You can meet other people of like mind.
And that's important too.
Being able to build a community and a coalition of people that are working towards the same goals is what we need to do.
that's part of the reason these other agendas are so successful, is they have these gigantic propaganda machines and they get everyone kind of in on the same page and it just marches forward.
But yes, occupypeace.com.
Make it if you can.
Again, you saw the beauty of the buildings up here.
It's historic four corners in America.
It was just a lot of fun even just to be there and to walk around and see the history that's there.
It's worth it alone to me just for that if you're looking for a nice little trip just to go see that.
And that's the reason I bought these buildings because the Seeds of Democracy was sown here.
I went for jury duty, the courthouse right across the street here.
The guy who's putting on the show, you know, the jury, the guy running the thing, he said, you see that picture over my shoulder?
He said, that's John Jay.
The first Supreme Court judge was a judge right over here.
He goes on to say that when Kingston was the capital of New York State, the Constitution that was written right over there for New York, over 70% of America's Constitution comes from that Constitution.
That's why I bought these buildings.
I was looking to leave the country one time, back in 2010, because I hated this war crap.
And I really, I can't run away.
And one of these buildings was for sale.
1750 Franz Rogan House.
I bought that one.
And the other one I bought was the, I told you, the Dr. Jensen house, 1763, and the 1774 Academy, one of the first public schools in America.
I said, I can't run away.
I'm only me because I'm an Opaliton.
I'm born in the Bronx.
If I was born in Alta Villa Arpina, Vico Quence, I wouldn't be me.
That's why I bought these buildings.
And that's why I launched Occupy Peace.
And like you said, you know, it's not about making money.
It costs me a lot of money.
And I do it for the spirit of this country that is lost.
And to me, the only thing that's going to bring it back is the Renaissance.
We have to go back to the spirit of our ancestors.
Once upon a time, everybody in the world wanted to come to America.
Everybody.
And now they want to get out of here.
And they don't want to come here anymore.
Only people want to come here, the people that have lack of basic living standards, poverty, government corruption, crime and violence.
They want to get the hell out of those countries.
But people in other countries don't want to come here.
Yeah.
It's very telling that, as you said, the people that can afford to get out of the United States want to.
And the only reason to come here is if you are in poverty conditions.
You're going to come here and being poor in America is still better than being poor in your own country.
And that's what it works out to be.
They're not coming here out of a desire to live in the greatest country on the planet or to potentially be a part of something great or new or create some new technology.
It's simply to make slightly more money than they would in their own country.
And that, as you pointed out, wasn't the case.
I'm sure there have always been some people that were like that, but it wasn't the majority.
It was because they saw what America was and how great it was, and they wanted to be American.
They wanted to be a part of that, not simply siphon resources.
Another article I have here, which makes me sick personally, is, you know, Israel to fund tours for MAGA and pro-Trump influencers.
So they're seeing that, you know, they need a little bit better PR.
So we're going to, you know, we're going to put together a fund so you can come look at our wall.
You can come see how wonderful Israel is.
Ignore the, you know, screaming, dying children over there in Palestine.
Isn't it nice to come hang out in Tel Aviv or one of these other cities?
You can experience the nightlife or whatever.
And it's just this cynical propaganda campaign.
We're going to bring in these influencers, and then they'll go back to America, and they'll tell all the gullible idiots who follow them, you know, we have to blindly support Israel.
And I just...
I cannot...
Sure, yeah, I'll come over there and I'll record some happy little vlogs for you.
Oh, look how nice the city is.
Look at how nice they are.
And I'm sure a lot of the people there are incredibly nice.
I'm sure a majority are.
But their government is engaged in genocide.
It's engaged in continual murder of women and children.
And that is blood money that these people are taking.
And to me, it's horrific and disgusting.
No, I agree.
You know, I just want to go back quickly about we're talking about what America used to be.
One of my books, you can get this by going to our website, trendsjournal.com, what Zizzy gave Honeyboy.
It's Zizi's Neapolitan dialect for auntie.
Zia is auntie.
Zizzy's your auntie.
I don't know if you can see this picture, but you see that?
Yeah.
That's my parents' wedding, 1934, and they all rest in peace.
Look at the way they're dressed.
Look what they look like.
My father worked in a fish store.
They were laborers.
They worked in factories.
Look at the style of what the people used to look like.
The Buffets, the Gates, the Bezos, the Soros.
Can't come close to what these people look like.
No.
Can't come close to it.
Suckerberg.
One little jerk after another.
And again, it goes back to that picture I was showing you, the New York Times picture of that girl, that little thing dressed like a little boy.
Yeah.
I love your baseball hat on, you know, your ponytail sticking out.
They used to wear these beautiful hats.
They had grace and style.
This whole country's gone down, man.
Again, you go out and everybody's on their phone.
Everybody's on their phone.
Everybody walk down the street, they're on their phone.
You go into a bar, nobody talks to you.
Everyone on the phone.
You watch two people eating.
One's on the phone, the other one's on the phone.
Oh, yeah, the food's really tasting great.
And look how this thing's gone down in front of our eyes.
As I said, they misspelt it in the King James Bible.
They said, the meek shall inherit the earth, the geeks have inherited the earth.
Yeah.
Speaking to that, it's funny to me.
I'm a fairly outgoing individual, and I like to make conversation with people when I go out, whether I'm chatting with the store clerk when I'm buying groceries or wherever I am.
And as time goes on, people seem to be more shocked and taken aback by it.
Like they have a hard time reacting or responding to what I'm really saying.
You know, they've got, you know, good morning, how are you, yada.
But if you try to engage with them on anything deeper, they kind of freeze up a little bit more than they used to.
They're not used to interacting with people anymore.
No.
And the young generation is finished.
They get it.
It goes back to AI.
Again, in trend forecasting, it's not what you like, what you want, what you don't like, what you wish.
It has nothing to do with that.
It's what is.
AI is the future.
And it's going to keep dumbing down everybody.
Yeah.
There'll be some good points of it, but a lot of negative.
And young people are totally addicted to this stuff.
Again, look at the shape of people.
You know, when I was a young guy, your father, you know, he remembers, they had a thing called the Ringling Brothers in Barnum and Bailey Circus.
He told me, he used to go to Sarasota.
He saw them down there.
And he's going to step right up, step right up.
You don't have to step right up, step right up to see the fat man, see the tattooed lady and the lady with the beard.
They're out in the street everywhere.
It's so sad.
America has lost, as you said, that sense of dignity.
Everyone has kind of accepted this slovenly decline into, at best, mediocrity.
Very rarely is there someone that truly excels or even cares to.
And the people, it's hard to even say people like Mark Zuckerberg are excelling because when you look at him, he's simply this tech geek that took funding from the CIA.
Is that really excelling?
Getting your funding from Incutel and selling out the American people.
And yeah, he's rich, but he doesn't have any class to him.
So I said, if I had to look like Bezos saying, keep all your billions, wouldn't want to be you.
And he marries that chick with the fake boobs.
And you see the picture when they got married.
You look like a platform they could walk across, you know?
And again, that's the news.
I had to hear this crap day after day after day after day.
Front page pictures?
Care about this?
Again, what's there's another one?
A guy got caught.
There's some guy, a tech guy.
Something the other.
Oh, yeah, the CEO of some company got caught on a camera having an affair at a concert.
And everyone is just, it's non-stop.
It's all I've seen talked about online for almost a week now.
I know.
What the hell do I care about?
What do I care about this stuff?
And again, that's why the people need a trend journal.
We're giving you a, don't, if any, you go to Gerald Celente on YouTube and you look at the comments of the people that subscribe to the magazine, they can't believe it.
They can't believe it.
They're so thankful.
And again, when you put in the night link, you put it up there, you get 10% off.
It's the grand total of $2.50 a week, a couple of pennies a day.
Yeah.
You cannot get that kind of value for money anywhere that I'm aware of.
So it's well worth the $2.50 a week.
Where else can you get that much information for that kind of price?
It's ridiculous.
As you pointed out, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, it's these giant spreads of pictures.
And maybe the pictures look nice, maybe, but who cares?
You're not paying for a picture.
You're supposedly paying for information.
But then half the magazine, half the newspaper is taken up with these photos.
That they got rid of journalism.
That there used to be no photos.
Yeah.
Hardly any photos.
You go to the back, go back to the 1970s, Google it up.
Look at the New York Times.
There wasn't a photo on the front, maybe a small little photo on the front page.
And hardly any photos.
They gotten rid of all the journalists.
And now AI is becoming the new journalism.
You know, here's an article, by the way, about Trump intends to, the AI boom.
He goes on to say, America is the country that started the AI race.
And as President of the United States, I'm here today to declare that America is going to win it.
No, they won't.
China's going to win it.
China's going to win it.
The Chinese AI is now the most used in the world.
Yep.
Deep seek any others.
They're the most used in the world.
Again, he goes on to say, we're going to make this industry absolutely the top because right now, this is stupid language.
It's a beautiful baby that's born.
We have to grow that baby and let that baby thrive.
We can't stop it.
You're right.
It's a baby.
But I said before, you don't invest all your money in the baby.
Yeah.
It's a, you know, you never want to be, I've said this before, you never want to be the first adopter of a new technology.
As a general rule, you want to let them iterate, you know, once or twice to get the bugs worked out.
And my dad, as you have both, you and him have both been saying, same thing, this is a redo of the dot-com bust.
People get very, very excited.
You know, they see all these things and they invest, invest, invest, and they throw money at these people.
And then, as these tech companies almost always do, they underdeliver because it's a hype machine.
And all of a sudden, people start to panic.
And the money just Starts pouring back out of it.
Yep.
No, you're right.
You know, here, this is your trends journal when it used to be a quarterly.
This is fall of 1999.
Dot-com.
This.
Remember, this is the fall of 1999.
Dot-com busts in the second quarter of 2000, we had forecast, and it did.
Dot-com overload will short-circuit many high expectations for huge profits in internet commerce, entertainment, and a wide array of dot-com services.
Following the holiday season, many of today's high-flying internet stocks, the hottest IPOs, and newly emerging IPO wannabes will have begun their deep descent from their overvalued heights.
By mid-2000, the fallout from the failing dot-coms will have worked its way through Wall Street.
We went on and on, said it was going to bust.
What happened was the internet revolution began like around 1994.
It really started to take off, 92.
And they started making up stuff that made no sense at all because everybody was so hyped up about it.
And we said, no, this stuff doesn't make any sense.
It's going to bust.
The same thing is going on now, but just a little different.
They're overinvesting in the baby that's born.
And so that's going to crash the equity markets.
It did it before, it did it again.
When the dot-com bust happened in March of 2000, the NASDAQ lost 80% of its value.
You know what changed it?
When all else fails, they take you to war.
9-11.
Little Georgie Bush was president.
People couldn't stand him.
Going into recession, dot-com crash.
We're going to get that guy, Osama bin Laden, dead or alive.
90% of the people swallowed the crap coming out of that little boy's mouth.
90% of Americans.
It's funny.
You talk about how nobody liked George Bush, but as someone who was quite young at that time, after 9-11 is mostly what I remember.
And I just remember everyone loving George Bush.
Oh, he's a great president.
He's wonderful.
He's defending America.
He's defending our freedoms.
He's teaching those nasty Arabs what for.
He's showing them America won't take nothing.
And as a child, you don't really pay too much attention.
The geopolitics is kind of beyond your scope.
But as an adult looking back on it, I see it for just the cynical manipulation that it was.
And just this continual willingness of the American people to, oh, we've been attacked.
Oh, he's doing something about it.
Well, he's our guy.
He's our man.
What a great leader he is.
Yep.
And they fall for it over and over.
Yep, let's go back to Osama bin Laden.
Who created Osama bin Laden?
Who supported him?
You know who?
I believe it was the CIA.
Jimmy Carter.
And that slime ball, Mayhew Rotten Hell Brzezinski.
Yeah.
Whose daughter is now on MSNBC.
All right?
What happened was the Taliban were taking over Afghanistan.
Afghanistan, before the Taliban came in, was a very advanced cultural society.
Great artists.
It was doing fine.
Russia tried to stop the Taliban from coming in.
The Mujahideen, brought to you by Osama bin Laden, Jimmy Carter, and Brzezinski.
That's who they supported.
That's who they gave our money to to go fight the Russians.
Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer.
Yeah.
This is a slime ball also that deregulated the airline industry.
When I was a young guy, I was working for a trade association, and I got to the top pretty quick.
We're putting on a show, trade show in Las Vegas.
I'm living in Chicago.
First class from Chicago to Las Vegas, 1974.
Everybody dressed.
They roll a roast down.
Would you like a roast or lobster thermidor?
And then they had the bar upstairs.
Jimmy Carter and the slime ball, Kahn, Alfred Kahn, I'll never forget.
They were the ones that deregulated the airline industry.
There was Mohawk, Allegheny, Braniff, Northwest, Pan Am, one after another.
All went out of business.
Now you got a couple of companies run the whole thing.
This is the Jimmy Carter that brought us into state banking.
Bank of America, no, they were out in California.
It was only in trust state banking.
A rotten piece of thumb, like all of them.
Are you like, maybe you like FDR?
Healer gave us World War II.
Oh, Woodrow Wilson gave us World War I. Oh, yeah, Obama, you know, the Nobel piece of crap prize one.
I want that guy Qaddafi out of there.
Oh, yeah, the richest country in Africa.
Great tourist spot where people had more rights and benefits than most of the world.
Yeah, I want that guy Assad out of there.
Oh yeah, you did a great job in Syria too.
Again, one after another, Clinton, you're talking about him, you know, every time he got caught with his pants down, his bombs away over Baghdad.
Google up Madeleine Albright on 60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl.
Leslie Stahl asks Madeline Albright, is the price, you ready, of 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of five that have died because of what Bill Clinton has done to Iraq, is that worth the price?
And Madeline Albright said, yes, it's worth the price.
Yeah, every time that clip Circulates every once in a while.
I see it come back now and then, and every single time it infuriates me.
It makes me sick.
500,000, it'd be bad enough if it were 500,000 people in general.
500,000 is an unconscionable number, but that's children.
That is young children.
Under five.
Under five.
Their life has barely started.
This is how I feel about politicians.
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It makes your feelings very clear.
Again, I was the assistant to the Secretary of the New York State Senate.
I worked on major politically campaigns in Westchester County in the early 1970s, richest county in America.
I got a picture of me when I picked up Ronald Reagan at the Chicago Hilton two days before, 30 years old, two days before announcing he's running against Gerald Ford and put on a brunch with 16 of our board of directors.
I was a major, I used to do talks for USA Today when it was a big newspaper.
I was the Prince of Norway.
I've been there.
I've been on the other side.
I wouldn't know what I know if I wasn't on the other side.
And it's a freak show.
And the freaks are running the show.
Again, it's the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Here, could you come out with a better clown if you were the best artist in the world than Boris Johnson, the former prime minister of the UK, with the stupid hair and the little jerky...
You can't make this stuff up.
Yeah, you put a little clown makeup on him and you could rent him out for children's birthday parties.
Got it.
We have a comment here, Citizen of Maracaka.
It says there's literally a picture of Osama bin Laden in the Oval Office with Jimmy Carter.
The American government has loved mucking around in the Middle East for decades.
It goes back so much further.
For most Americans, it seems that the start of our problems in the Middle East was 9-11.
Some will go back to the hostage crisis in Reagan, but most, their knowledge of what goes on in the Middle East starts with 9-11 and kind of ends there as well.
They're like, oh, you know, 9-11, they did that.
They're bad.
That's what they know.
There's no nuance.
There's no understanding of what we've done to their countries over the years and how we've continually harassed them for our own economic benefit and for the economic benefit and geopolitical benefit of Israel.
They don't want to do any research into that.
They don't care.
Oh, again, you were talking about that guy that got caught on the video.
That's what they know about.
One of my books is called Trend Tracking, Far Better Than Megatrends, Time Magazine.
And I write about how I became a trend forecaster.
Here it is.
The Iran crisis.
I told you how I started tracking trends during the Iran crisis of 1979.
And I'll use that as a simple model.
People had no idea what happened back then.
This is when I became a political atheist and I quit my job.
They taught us to hate Iran, the people that were protesting against the Shah, a dictator.
They had no idea the United States overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953.
You were talking about the Middle East before.
Yeah, Operation Ajax.
The NIA and the MI6, facts are all there.
They wanted their oil.
Mossadegh said, no, that oil does not belong to Anglo-Iranian oil, better known today as BP, or Standard Oil, better known today as ExxonMobil.
That oil belongs to the Iranian people.
No, it doesn't.
Imagine that.
A politician that actually, a world leader that actually is trying to do something for his own people.
Imagine that.
And they brought in that arrogant piece of scum, the Shah, and the SAVAC, the secret police, that made the SS look good.
They were torturing the people.
On and on.
So what happened was when governments intervene, when a revolution's going on, it brings in the extreme element that takes over.
If the United States, all they wanted to do was tell the United States, get out of here, leave, go.
We're not going to leave.
How dare you tell us to leave?
And that's what escalated it in, and that's why it became the radical government taking over.
Here, this is one of the came a Trank forecast.
Jimmy Carter comes back from spending New Year's Eve with the Shah and his wife.
And back in the day, you know, the helicopter would land, all the guys dressed up in their drag would.
And Jimmy Carter, it's right in the book, says, the Shah is the island of stability in the Middle East.
And the Bronx, we used to say BS has its own sound.
So this thing is going to go down.
And that's when I became a trend forecaster.
I started playing the futures markets in gold and oil.
And I had a $10,000 bet, $5,000 in each, that almost brought it up to three-quarters of a million dollars.
And that's when I quit my job.
I lost a lot of the dough.
You know, I'm a young guy.
Anyway, but I look at the facts.
And people have no idea what the facts are.
But we're giving them in the Trends Journal that they're not getting anywhere else.
Yeah.
The point is, you will actually have access to the facts.
You're not going to sit there and be getting articles about Brett Cooper or whatever her name is.
You're not getting that kind of nonsense.
Gerald isn't out there going to tell you, oh, look, this guy got caught on camera having an affair.
It'll be things of consequence, things that actually matter.
So again, trendsjournal.com, promo code night for 10% off if you would like to both get the Trends Journal and support the show.
And I've got this article here.
We don't really have that much time, but just we have Lindsey Graham still out there beating his chest and he's threatening Putin as he's trying to escalate things.
His rhetoric getting more extreme.
And it's just, what has Lindsey Graham ever fought?
All right, this is in your economic Update in this week's Trends Journal.
Again, we didn't talk about this, so everybody knows this just came up.
Lindsey Graham warned that President Trump will put 100% tariffs on India and China and Brazil if they buy oil from Russia, and that Donald Trump would put, you ready?
A whooping on your ass.
This is what he said on Fox News.
He's got a whooping.
Whooping on your ass.
This is little Lindsey Graham, a little slobby piece of crap that loves war that couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag.
He goes on to say, these three countries account for 80% of Russians' crude exports, which is helping to fund the war in Ukraine.
Oh, we're funding the Euro-Ukraine.
Oh, but they can't.
Okay, fuck it.
Okay.
If they keep buying cheap Russian oil to allow the war to continue, you ready?
We're going to tear the hell out of you.
We're going to tear the hell out of you?
And fuck, boy.
Go on and tear them up.
Anybody that supports war in another country, go over there and fight.
Send your wife, your kids, your transgenders, everybody else, and your money, or shut your mouth.
Yeah.
I have a hard time imagining some Russian Spetsnaz unit watching Lindsey Graham and quaking in their boots.
Oh no, Lindsey Graham, he's coming to kill us.
And you're talking about what he said about Putin.
You have played President Trump at your own peril.
You made a major league mistake.
Look at the language they talk.
And your economy is going to continue to be crushed.
Their economy isn't being crushed.
They're becoming more self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
Russia has all the human and natural resources they need to be self-sustaining and self-sufficient.
Russia has a massive amount of land.
The amount of untapped resources they have is astronomical.
And if we just force them to actually utilize their own resources, it might be a short-term detriment to them.
They've got to spool up these industries.
But in the long term, that's actually a good thing.
Forcing them to rely more on themselves and building their own economy.
It just, this is all very short-term, short-sighted politics.
We've got a comment from Gard Goldsmith here.
He says, I would love to write articles for the Trends Journal.
Great publication.
So hopefully, you know, maybe send them Gerald's way.
Maybe they'll get in there.
I don't know how it works, but I know Gard does great work.
I know he does.
Great guy.
He's actually, we met Gard for the first time in person when we were up in Kingston.
And that was a wonderful experience there.
Just so many great people, people like Gard, people like Gerald, people that truly care about the cause of liberty and peace and freedom, which is what you need.
We don't need these tough guys that are out there beating their chests.
America's great because America can kick the ass of any country on the planet.
That doesn't matter if it's not a good thing.
And even if you think it's cool, how strong the military is, it's not a good thing for the American people.
I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said, the weapons of war abroad will become the tools of oppression at home.
We see that over and over again.
It's what's happening to us.
And the Founding Fathers knew what they were talking about.
They didn't say these things without thought or consideration.
And we have discarded everything they fought for, everything they cared about, and everything they worked so hard to give us.
And it's truly sad to see.
But it's good to see people like Gerald who will stand up and still fight for it in a spot that has so much history to it, a spot that is so dear to the heart of freedom in the United States.
And I just want to say thank you, Gerald.
I want to thank you for coming on.
And thank you for supporting us with the Trends Journal.
Again, promo code Knight for 10% off at trendsjournal.com.
Thank you, Gerald.
Thank you.
All right, folks.
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